What are the benefits of putting swap
into a logical volume over using direct disk access?
For example, with a fresh, default install of RHEL5 or 6, a volume group is created on the default disk along with one other small non-logical partition (for /boot
). Inside the volume group, a swap space is created along with the mount point for /
.
What are the benefits (if any) to having swap
be inside a logical group instead of directly on the disk?