-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Geoffrion Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:13 AM To: Dirvish user and developer mailing list Subject: Re: [Dirvish] Backup dies with out a trace
Richard Geoffrion wrote: <snip> [*]Note to self, when using software RAID1, raid the swap partition too! :) -----Reply below-------- I vaguely remember reading (I think it might have been in the MD or LVM man pages) that RAID-ing swap space was not necessary in kernel 2.6 (and possibly 2.4), because if you add multiple swap areas, the OS will balance the swapping-load among them to achieve the same effect without the management overhead of RAID. You might be working harder than you need to. -dP _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
