On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:44:34PM -0800, nate wrote:
> David Neilson said:
> > I am running software RAID on a RH 7.2 box (raidtools-0.90-23).  I have
> > configured all system partitions to be mirrored, including swap.  The
> > question is:  Does swapping on RAID work?
> 
> 
> I do not think software raid can work with swap. unless you use a swap
> file .. hardware raid of course works fine with swap. you can get a semi
> raid-0 swap setup by setting up multiple swap partitions(1 per disk), and
> activating them with the same priority.

It's far more important to have swap be on raid-1 than raid-0.  I
believe what the original poster wanted would be to keep the system up
if a drive fails.  With swap on a non-raid partition, if the drive dies,
your system goes down with it.

        .../Ed (who happily pages to software-mirrored disks on VMS)

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