> On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 15:19 -0400, Paul LaMadeleine wrote:
> > with swap unmirrored
>
> At the fear of crossing you, I will have to point out that this is not a
> redundant configuration.  I understand the performance hit, but
> mirroring swap is so swap doesn't become unavailable ...
>
>   ... and all of the pages with it.  ;)  
>
> So while one can boot from a MD RAID-1 /boot filesystem (at least as
> long as the BIOS can boot the correct disk/slice, and GRUB is in the MBR
> of both drives), I cannot condone the practice of a non-redundant swap.

You know, I completely missed that...  I was just thinking about speed and size 
of swap on a two disk system.  Didn't even think of losing swap.  

Thanks for pointing that out :)  much appreciated!

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