On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:03:00AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:10:11AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > Below I mean adding a single HD not to the raid, just > > as additional space where to point the swap file > > thanks > > Running a raid1 system with non raid swap just doesn't make sense. If > the swap drive fails, your system dies horribly possible in ways that > could mess up the filesystem. Why make a system with redundancy > suddenly have none? Better to buy a pair of those drives and run swap > on another raid1. > > -- > Len Sorensen > >
To answer the original question: Yes, it is possible. As the other respondents have indicated, you would be facing some increased risk and the question is whether the increased risk is an acceptable trade-off for you. If I really, really needed the performance, I'd put the swap on 2 striped raid0 drives. I'd probably mount every partition except /var and /home/workplace read-only though. Patrick. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]