Software RAID disk partitioning (FC1) (SOLVED)

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed May 5 21:20:18 UTC 2004


Once upon a time, Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> said:
> Running swap space as / on a RAID makes not so much sense. Better create
> a swap partition on each drive and in /etc/fstab assing each swap space
> the same priority with pri=X (see man 8 swapon for the priority setting)
> in the options column.

Then if you have a disk failure the system crashes because in-use swap
space went away.  RAID1 gives you redundancy on swap.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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