If you put / and /boot on raid then probably your swap
is also on raid. Does having swap on raid have any
significant impact on performance?
J.
--- Holger Kiehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
> > After doing more reading and lurking on this
> maillist, I'm starting to get
> > the idea that having the /root or /boot partition
> on a RAID is not
> > advisable. Some older FAQs say that you can't
> upgrade the kernel with this
> > configuration. Is that still true? I would like to
> understand better why
> > this not an advisable configuration.
> >
> To me this is a very advisable configuration. It
> gives you fault tolerance
> and more speed. In the days where there was no
> autodetection it was more
> complicated to have a root raid. Upgrading the
> kernel is also no problem,
> just make shure that the kernel contains the raid
> patches.
>
> Holger
>
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