Hi. > > If you're using md for RAID-1, then the best way to have your swap partitions > is to have one partition on each drive, *outside* the RAID array, and use > them as separate swap partitions. There's little to no point in slowing down > the system by RAIDing the contents of the swapfile -- under almost any > circumstance in which that might be desirable, there will be worse and more > immediate problems.
The idea is that if one disk fails, and the swap on that one is corrupted, the system will crash... > With the kind of hardware RAID that appears as a single > SCSI drive, you obviously can't avoid RAIDing swap; but at least it isn't > such a performance hit. Some people have pointed out that linux's software RAID is probably more efficient then the common cheap (fake) hardware RAID. > > Due to the way the "modern" /dev works, you won't see an entry for sda2 at > all > if /dev/sda2 has already been appropriated by some RAID array. Check > your /etc/raidtab to make sure that the partitions you want to use for swap > really are available. On my system (using "mdadm"): # ls /etc/raidtab ls: /etc/raidtab: No such file or directory Best regards, Gilles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]