On Thursday 15 March 2007 20:12, David Mayr wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 19:47 schrieb John Andersen: > > On Thursday 15 March 2007, James D. Parra wrote: > > > Isn't mirroring a swap partition a bad idea, or at the least wasteful? > > > > Mirroring is not too bad for swap. When the system needs to read > > swap the raid drivers will read from which ever disk is not busy, so > > it might be faster than non-raid, but only slightly so. > > > > A swap on raid5 is quite a bit slower. > > Mirroring swap isn't a bad idea also because your running system would > break if a disk crashes with swapped data on it. >
as mentioned by others in this thread, I put seperate swaps one on each disk, and raid the rest. This means that the machine crashes when a disk breaks. The system then works after a reboot. In this form I Immedeatetly know when a disk breaks at one of my SOHO clients. I find that to be a major plus. Jerry > > -- > David Mayr, http://davey.de > openSUSE LINUX, http://opensuse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
