Re: Swap on software RAID1 - swap

2004-07-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Alec Berryman wrote: > I know that raid1 swap will not be faster than two swap partitions of > equal priority; however, I'm more worried about reliability. any disk that crashed that had used swap space will hang the system any unused swap space is not an issue and will no

Re: Swap on software RAID1

2004-07-28 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of Alvin Oga on 2004-07-28 15:41:22 -0700: > > I've been setting up software RAID1 and am wondering what to do about > > swap. According to the Software-RAID-HOWTO > > (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-2.html), there's > > apparently an 'ongoing debate' on the virtue

Re: Swap on software RAID1

2004-07-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Alec Berryman wrote: > I've been setting up software RAID1 and am wondering what to do about > swap. According to the Software-RAID-HOWTO > (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-2.html), there's > apparently an 'ongoing debate' on the virtues of using software RAID1

Swap on software RAID1

2004-07-28 Thread Alec Berryman
I've been setting up software RAID1 and am wondering what to do about swap. According to the Software-RAID-HOWTO (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-2.html), there's apparently an 'ongoing debate' on the virtues of using software RAID1 with swap. I currently have same-sized partitions