Perfect sense if you want a HA (High Availability) system. In the case here
I don't want the system failing if a disk dies on me. All volumes here are
on one form of RAID or another. Which gives me the opportunity to swap
out a bad disk at MY convince instead of being screwed when a disk dies
on a non-redundant system.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: Dietmar Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 12:30
Subject: Re: Swap on raid
> Hi
>
> A question in between: what sense does it make to have the swap onto
> raid?
>
> I think, that moment your machine starts swapping you�ll get some
> performance problems which wouldn't be solved by using "raid-swap"
> instead of swap on a single disk or whatever. Think of the meaning of
> swap (increasing physical memory for security not for daily work).
>
> Greetings, Dietmar
>
> Paul Jakma wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 9 May 1999, Gulcu Ceki wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On the other hand, if the intent is higher reliability, then one can
> > swap on a RAID-1 partition.
> >
> > i wonder, can you have your swap on a raid5 partition? raid-1 seems
> > a bit of a waste of hdd space.
> >
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