On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 16:52 -0400, Paul LaMadeleine wrote: > 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!
Again, if you're really concerned about speed and size of swap, just get a pair of disks and a $150 3Ware 9650SE-2LP (PCIe x1) card -- which acts as a block-speed "storage switch" -- put your /boot, swap, / (root) and a few other, basic volumes there, and be done with it. Use MD, LVM mirroring, SAN (with its own, managed redundancy), etc... for everything else as you wish, with whatever RAID level you desire. It's really not worth the bother when an inexpensive, universally compatible PCIe x1 (yes, x1 in the "-2LP" sub-model) card solves everything, rebuilds in the background, and works with Linux (even S.M.A.R.T. and generic facilities, if you don't like their 3DM2 tools). I've seen people bang their head too hard into walls, just on the /boot, swap and / (root) issues too many times to not recommend this hard. ;) -- Bryan J Smith Senior Consultant Red Hat, Inc Professional Consulting http://www.redhat.com/consulting mailto:[email protected] +1 (407) 489-7013 (Mobile) mailto:[email protected] (Blackberry/Red Hat-External) -------------------------------------------------------- You already know Red Hat as the entity dedicated to 100% no-IP-strings-attached, community software development. But do you know where CIOs rate Red Hat versus other software and services firms for their own, direct needs, year after year? http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
