Matthew Stringer wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 17:22:24 James Knott wrote: > >> Matthew Stringer wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:27:06 James Knott wrote: >>> >>>> Matthew Stringer wrote: >>>> >>>>> I don't normally SoftRAID the swap partitions as it would be faster >>>>> just to have multiple ones instead (you're not limited to one). >>>>> >>>> Given one of the goals of RAID is to keep the system running when a >>>> drive fails, what happens when a drive containing swap croaks? >>>> >>> Your available swap space would be reduced, doesn't cause the system to >>> fail. >>> >> And when it goes to retrieve the contents of that swap that's no longer >> there? Drives do fail occasionally, when the system is running. >> > > If you swap over multiple partitions the data is automatically striped, it > usually copes OK if a drive blobs Linux is fairly stable these days when it > comes to read/write errors. I think you're splitting hairs if you think that > sotfRAID1 gives you enough extra stability which outweighs the reduction in > performance. > > When you say striped, are you saying redundant info is stored, similar to RAID? If not, then there's no protection. If yes, how does striping differ from software RAID
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