Aaron Kulkis wrote: > James Knott wrote: >> Bill Anderson wrote: >>> There is no need to create the swap partitions as RAID drives. The >>> simple solution is to use the ionice command to set the I/O priority of >>> all swap partitions to the same value. The kernel then treats them in a >>> manner similar to RAID 0. For performance reasons, you don't want >>> anything to slow down swap. >>> >>> >> >> And what will happen, should a drive containing swap fail, while the >> system is running? Would you recommend that to someone when uptime is >> critical? >> > > If uptime were absolutely critical, I wouldn't be using > Linux or any standard Unix for that matter. I would be > have those apps running on QNX or a Stratus server. > > QNX is the only OS certified for "life and death" > equipment, such as hospital monitoring machines. >
Regardless of the OS, the question remains the same. If you had a critical system, would you have swap on a non RAID drive? BTW, according to what I've read in several articles, Linux is being used in many critical applications. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
