From: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>
To: Hermann Himmelbauer <dusty@strike.wu-wien.ac.at>
Cc: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Swap on RAID1?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:25:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8B3483.728E75E3@SteelEye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200310140012.33121.dusty@strike.wu-wien.ac.at
Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
> 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?
Yes and yes. One other possible alternative would be to fork out the
money for more RAM rather than a second disk for swap. And just don't
use swap, if you're worried about swap crashing the system...and
performance will be much better, too.
--
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-13 23:25 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
2003-10-13 23:05 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-10-13 23:25 ` Paul Clements [this message]
2003-10-14 8:48 ` Gordon Henderson
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