Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 19:47 schrieb John Andersen: > On Thursday 15 March 2007, James D. Parra wrote: > > Isn't mirroring a swap partition a bad idea, or at the least wasteful? > > Mirroring is not too bad for swap. When the system needs to read > swap the raid drivers will read from which ever disk is not busy, so > it might be faster than non-raid, but only slightly so. > > A swap on raid5 is quite a bit slower.
Mirroring swap isn't a bad idea also because your running system would break if a disk crashes with swapped data on it. -- David Mayr, http://davey.de openSUSE LINUX, http://opensuse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
