From: Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>
To: Hermann Himmelbauer <dusty@strike.wu-wien.ac.at>,
Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Swap on RAID1?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:20:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310132320.11883.thomas@horsten.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310140012.33121.dusty@strike.wu-wien.ac.at>
On Monday 13 October 2003 23:12, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
> I am considering putting my Swap on a RAID1.
>
> I am aware that using 2 seperate Swap-Spaces without RAID would probably
> speed things up as Linux distributes the swap.
>
> But what happens if a disk fails and the swap is on this disk? I assume
> Linux would crash? Wouldn't a swap on a RAID prevent such a crash?
It would, and if the hardware RAID is well implemented it'll probably spread the swap better than Linux could.
Kind regards,
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-13 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-13 22:12 Swap on RAID1? Hermann Himmelbauer
2003-10-13 22:20 ` Thomas Horsten [this message]
2003-10-13 23:05 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-10-13 23:25 ` Paul Clements
2003-10-14 8:48 ` Gordon Henderson
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