Re: Is Swapping on software RAID1 possible in linux 2.4 ?

Paul Jakma (paulj@alphyra.ie)
Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:08:58 +0100 (IST)


On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Nick DeClario wrote:

> RAID1 would also mirror your swap. Why would you want that?

redundancy. no point having your data redundant if your swap isn't -
1 drive failure will take out the box the moment it tries to access
swap on the failed drive.

PS: i have 2 boxes deployed running RH's 2.4.2, with swap on top of
LVM on top of RAID1. no problems sofar, even during resync.

> Regards,
> -Nick

--paulj

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