On Wednesday 05 March 2008 08:58:43 am Petcher, Daniel wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________
The idea behind raiding swap isn't that it makes things faster, but instead it protects against losing a drive with swap on it. Losing a drive with unRAIDed swap on it WILL take down the server. _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
