From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Clements Subject: Re: Swap on RAID1? Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:25:55 -0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F8B3483.728E75E3@SteelEye.com> References: <200310140012.33121.dusty@strike.wu-wien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: Hermann Himmelbauer Cc: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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