Re: mini root-RAID5-howto

[Mika Kuoppala]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Lauri Tischler wrote:

> Thomas Waldmann wrote:
> 
> > Now you have:
> 
> > - if any single disk fails, you are able to boot from any other disk (getting
> > /dev/sda in that case)
> 
> If any disk fails you lose part of your swap and your system crashes,
> because
> in your case swap is striped over three disks.
> To do things properly you need to make raid-device from your swap-partitions
> too.

        Is raid5 safe bet for swapping ? I recall reading
        that atleast in the past swapping wasnt possible on arrays.

        -- Mika