Quoth Michael.....
>
>> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bohumil Chalupa wrote:
>>
>> > IMHO there's no reason for using raid0 (striped) partition for swap.
>> > If you use two swap partitions with equal priority, the kernel does
>> > the striping automatically.
>
>Reasons TO USE RAID for swap - if the darn swap partition goes bad,
>the kernel chokes. With a raid swap partition, a bad disk will not
>bring down the system. Guess how I found out!!!
Except that the lower level SCSI drivers* seem to croak when a disk goes
bad and lockup the system anyway :-(
* - aic7xxx in my case.
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Russell
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