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From: Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>
Subject: Re: Swap on RAID1?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:20:11 +0100
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To: Hermann Himmelbauer <dusty@strike.wu-wien.ac.at>, Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
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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