On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:32:05PM -0600, Samat Jain wrote: > You should keep swap partitions off of MD devices. If you've multiple > swap partitions, you can pass the "pri" option to stripe among your swap > partitions (ala RAID0) for a slightly performance boost. Running RAID1, > RAID5, etc for a swap partition is a waste of diskspace and CPU cycles.
Do you know what happens to the system when you DON'T run raid for the swap and one of the disks die? It's not pretty. You want swap on raid1 so that disk failure doesn't impact any part of the system operations. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
