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[Matthew Stringer <qube@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04 December 2007 17:22:24 James Knott wrote:
> Matthew Stringer wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:27:06 James Knott wrote:
> > > Matthew Stringer wrote:
> > > > I don't normally SoftRAID the swap partitions as it would be faster
> > > > just to have multiple ones instead (you're not limited to one).
> > >
> > > Given one of the goals of RAID is to keep the system running when a
> > > drive fails,  what happens when a drive containing swap croaks?
> >
> > Your available swap space would be reduced, doesn't cause the system to
> > fail.
>
> And when it goes to retrieve the contents of that swap that's no longer
> there?  Drives do fail occasionally, when the system is running.

If you swap over multiple partitions the data is automatically striped, it 
usually copes OK if a drive blobs Linux is fairly stable these days when it 
comes to read/write errors. I think you're splitting hairs if you think that 
sotfRAID1 gives you enough extra stability which outweighs the reduction in 
performance.

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