Thank you Martin. I'm doing this now....
Take care.
----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Bene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: David Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: Best way to set up swap for high availability?
> At 14:19 23.11.99 -0800, David Cunningham wrote:
>
> >The issue is RAID-1 swap. I'm a little unclear as to which method to use
to
> >ensure best availability for my server. Currently I have two 10 gig EIDE
> >drives with identical partitions set up as follows:
>
> Swap on raid1 IS possible with version 0.90. As has been suggested by
> others I'd also recommend setting your partitions to type fd to allow
> autodetection & automatic startup.
>
> Just turn off your current swap, create a raid device from your swap
> partitions, use mkswap on the raid device, change your swap entry in fstab
> to use the raid device and turn swap back on agian.
>
> >The idea is to make the swap on both drives mirrors of each other so that
my
> >system won't go down in the event one drive fails. First of all, will
this
> >work? If so is there anything special I need to configure in the
> >/etc/raidtab file to accomodate swap as opposed to ext2.
>
> That's why I'm using wap on raid in my production servers as well; with
ide
> disks failure of one of the disks is handled very well, on scsi raid
> systems there have been numeous reports that the scsi layer or driver will
> have problems after a disk failure and you may have to restart the system
> after a disk failure.
>
> Bye, Martin
>
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