On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 08:48:01PM +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote:
> Upon reboot swap was activated:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep swap
> Adding 498004k swap on /dev/sda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:498004k
> Adding 498004k swap on /dev/sdb2.  Priority:-2 extents:1 across:498004k
> 
> Would it give any advantage to RAID the swap too or is it just good like
> this?

If you like your system crashing when a disk fails, then no there is no
advantage to having swap on raid.  If you like the system to continue
running until you are ready to deal with a failed disk, then you put
swap on raid1.

Len Sorensen


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