Len, Patrick: Thanks. Actually, I didn't see the original by Len. Well, security comes first. Also, the idea of setting in a cheap HD was a faulty idea anyway because I am at WD Raptor just because cheap HDs didn't work on long runs.
The mentioned Tyan mother board has 4 SATA ports, two, I suppose, already occupied by raid1. Following the suggestion by Len, is that possible to install another raid1 (just for additional disk space, say swap) while preserving the current Debian amd64 etch on present raid1 (Linux driven)? This machine is ssh with Debian i386 as graphical interface on another machine so that reinstalling everything on new HDs would not be attractive. Also, I am pressed to fish some computations. Thanks again francesco --- Patrick Albuquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]