On 03/14/2011 03:07 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/14/11 3:02 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> I'd allocate swap to the raw devices rather than the RAID devices, > > why would you use RAID and not RAID your swap? the primary (many say, > only) purpose of RAID is to maintain uptime, and having any swap device > fail will ensure your system immediately crashes. > > I *always* mirror my swap devices on any system that is using RAID. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Do you have any sense of whether this takes a big performance hit with software raid? (I was actually planning on hardware raid but the system got ordered incorrectly). Thank You, Nataraj _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
