: There has been much talk of problems with swapping on raid.
:
: As I understand it swapping on raid is fine unless the array
: is reconstructing.
[snip]
I was under the impression that the current Linux
swapping code automatically distributed (RAID-0
style) across all available swap
There has been much talk of problems with swapping on raid.
As I understand it swapping on raid is fine unless the array is reconstructing.
Hence if I have a system which is RAID1 and has no hot spare devices I should be OK as
long as I make sure that when I am reconstructing after a failure I
Hi,
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I had a big problem 2 weeks ago on a linux/SCSI server: the HD failled
We lost all the data from HD and we had to rebegin the setup for the
beginning with
the linux kernel stripes swap writes across multiple swap partitions of the
same priority. striping (effectively raid0) provides NO reliability in case of
disk failure. this is what the original poster was asking about.
to aswer the original question, i have twice tried to make swap on raid1,
Part of the problem you may be seeing is SCSI itself.
You pull an active SCSI data cable on a non-hot swappable controller/drive
and the controller will hang the SCSI and CPU busses the next time it
accesses the controller.
At 03:42 PM 1/1/2000 -0500, you wrote:
the linux kernel stripes swap
