> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 6:35 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: how should I set up swap?
>
> Hi,
>
> got raid working, got lilo all set up, now how should I set up swap in
> /etc/fstab?
>
> I have 2 scsi drives set up as a raid1- this has / and /boot
> and the rest of
> the system.
>
> I also have an IDE drive for storage and backup.
>
> all 3 drives have a partition set up to be swap
>
> Right now swap is on the IDE drive.
>
> I guess I have a few choices about how to set this up.
> 1) leave swap as /dev/hda2
> 2) move swap to /dev/sda2 or /dev/sdb2
> 3) join sda2 and sdb2 as md2 and put swap on the raid1
> 4) some combination of the above
>
> I've been reading the archive and I can't get a clear picture
> as to which
> way to go.
>
> Mostly I'm looking for ressiliancy against drive failure.
If your system never uses swap, then it's not a big deal, just configure two
swap devices with the same priority (I've got 256MB of ram on my desktop, I
only use swap when I've got 2+ vmware machines running). If you want to
protect against failure of the disk(s) that swap is stored on, create a
RAID1 for swap, and use the script that was just recently posted in place of
swapon -a, because you can't have swap while a RAID set is reconstructing.
Greg
