Software RAID disk partitioning (FC1) (SOLVED)

[Jeff Vian]

Chris Adams wrote:

>Once upon a time, Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> said:
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>>Running swap space as / on a RAID makes not so much sense. Better create
>>a swap partition on each drive and in /etc/fstab assing each swap space
>>the same priority with pri=X (see man 8 swapon for the priority setting)
>>in the options column.
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>Then if you have a disk failure the system crashes because in-use swap
>space went away.  RAID1 gives you redundancy on swap.
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It also adds another layer of software between the drive and memory. 
 Thus a speed penalty in an already bottlenecked area.

I would rather have it crash if a drive fails than constantly have to 
endure the longer access time when swap is in use. After all, in 10 
years I have only seen one drive fail on all my systems.

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