On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Louis Mandelstam wrote:
> Anyone else running swapspace over RAID1?
>
> The reason why I'd like to do this in the first place, is that the box
> involved needs serious uptime/HA, and I don't want to go to all the
> trouble of RAIDing the system and data disks, just so a physical disk
> failure hosting swap space can crash the box.
How about just making two separate swap devices (i.e. partitions)
on each physical disk, and letting the kernel stripe it for you? It just
automatically does that across multiple swap devices.
Good idea, keep up the good work :)
