-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2005-09-01 at 21:28 +0100, Stephen Carter wrote:
I'm about to start testing this and wanted some information on the swap partition.
It's not currently in a RAID partition and I read somewhere that it's not necessary to provide redundancy for the swap partition, but I was wondering if there is data in the swap partition and that physical drive fails, won't the box need it?
If you define two different swap partitions with the same priority, the kernel will write to both, with some speed gain. However, if one fails, the system would likely crash (what was swapped out is spread amongst two (or more) partitions - you'd loose whatever was in memory, but data on disk "should" be safe. If you "raid" those swap partitions you loose speed (compared with the previous case) but gain reliability. You choose :-) This is discussed, I think, in the software raid howto, included in the distro dvd. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDF7PytTMYHG2NR9URAmVKAJ9F7qXq86xLiv/J9io3ePGT2napQQCeKDfr s73+NahTcnvL1RTL1lbgP0E= =A6SK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----