If your OS is on a fault-tolerant drive, paging needs to be fault-tolerant also. If your paging disk dies, chances are the OS and any apps that had memory paged are going to crash.
ray On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Tim Fournet wrote: > Makes sense for systems where running RAID uses more CPU time due to > computing parity or uses more time to write the extra data to the RAIDed > devices. I really wish that there were some intermediate data storage > available for systems like this.. something cheaper than RAM but capable of > storing a few gigs of data at a pretty fast rate, though not as fast as RAM. > Some sort of device that would be suitable for swap files/partitions or /tmp > partitions would be really nice. > > -ray wrote: > >> >> hahaha someone just sent me this...very funny. >> >> "Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored >> volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need fault-tolerance."-MS >> Q308417 >> >> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308417 >> >> ray > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
