Re: Swap partition priority
Miroslav Lachman <[email protected]>
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On 18/08/2026 09:49, Stéphane Rochoy wrote: > Andrea Venturoli <[email protected]> writes: > >> Is it possible to set swap partition priority? >> According to swapon(8), the answer is no, but I wonder if the man page >> might be outdated, if patches are available, etc... >> >> The reason is I have SSDs and HDDs in the same system: I normally use >> swap on SSDs (for speed obviously), but sometimes the amount is not enough. >> So I'm ponderind adding swap on HDDS too, but this would slow down >> everyrting unless it's really used as last resort. > > Hello, > > Long ago I came accross a setup were the swap device was a GEOM mirror > (see gmirror(8)). AFAIK it was working except for vmcores: the kernel > was always using the first device which required to help savecore(8) a > bit. > > So maybe there's some GEOM class matching your needs. There is geom_concat - see man gconcat. It may be possible to use it for swap (never tried it). Best regards Miroslav Lachman