Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:08:58 +0100 (IST) | From | Paul Jakma <> | Subject | Re: Is Swapping on software RAID1 possible in linux 2.4 ? |
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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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