On Oct 13, 7:14pm, Vedad Kajtaz wrote:
} Subject: DAC960 and swap
> Hello,
Good morning, I hope that your day is going well.
> i've purchased a DAC960 card, and i'm succesfully running it in
> raid1 mode with two scsi disks in hot swappable bays. The doc says
> it is possible to use a partition /dev/rd/cXdXpX as root disk, but
> it doesnt say if a swap partition may be used on it. Does anyone
> know if it is possible/safe to do so? I could then remove ide disks
> from all servers (that would be nice :)
The partitions on the DAC970 virtual drives are as valid as any other
block device. As such you will not have any problems using one of
them as a swap partition. In fact if you belong to the school of
optimum reliability/redundancy you will want to have your swap
partition on a device which supports some type of redundancy, either
RAID1 or RAID5.
Here is the partition table of one virtual drive on a production
server that we configured with a DAC960 controller:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/rd/c0d0p1 1 129 264176 83 Linux native
/dev/rd/c0d0p2 130 194 133120 82 Linux swap
/dev/rd/c0d0p3 195 451 526336 83 Linux native
/dev/rd/c0d0p4 452 3375 5988352 5 Extended
/dev/rd/c0d0p5 452 3375 5988336 83 Linux native
Swap has been running on /dev/rd/c0d0p2 for about 6 months without a
peep from it.
> Thanx,
>
> -- Vedad Kajtaz
No problem. Good luck with the DAC960.
Greg
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