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From: Brad Campbell <brad@fnarfbargle.com>
To: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>,
	Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
	Another Sillyname <anothersname@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Installing Linux directly onto RAID6 Array...........
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 19:57:24 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5561BCA4.4060904@fnarfbargle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5561B237.4040709@youngman.org.uk>

On 24/05/15 19:12, Wols Lists wrote:

> Don't bother raid'ing swap at all! If you set the priority equal on all
> the swaps, linux will do a raid 0 for you and, frankly, what's the point
> of doing raid on your swap partition? You really shouldn't (in normal
> usage) be using swap at all.

When you develop a bad block in one of your non-RAID swap partitions and 
you spend a week trying to figure out why processes randomly die for no 
apparent reason you'll reconsider that attitude.

Brad
-- 
Dolphins are so intelligent that within a few weeks they can
train Americans to stand at the edge of the pool and throw them
fish.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-24 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-12 10:08 Installing Linux directly onto RAID6 Array Another Sillyname
2015-05-12 10:20 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2015-05-12 12:20   ` Phil Turmel
2015-05-12 12:31     ` Roman Mamedov
     [not found]       ` <CAOS+5GHhUoYxTTYOWU7cdN6GSdffSMGrhWHU5ZtWEjc4jEm3eg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-12 13:12         ` Fwd: " Another Sillyname
2015-05-12 13:42           ` Roman Mamedov
2015-05-12 13:27 ` Wilson, Jonathan
2015-05-12 14:05   ` Another Sillyname
2015-05-13  0:02 ` Adam Goryachev
     [not found]   ` <CAOS+5GEP6+7OAHkqQjeyGHAB5u-_-Vq2JWGpcOemYHdCjmR5Lg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-24  1:18     ` Fwd: " Another Sillyname
2015-05-24  8:36       ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2015-05-24  9:08         ` Another Sillyname
2015-05-24  9:46           ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2015-05-24 10:07             ` Another Sillyname
2015-05-24 10:35               ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2015-05-24 10:42                 ` Another Sillyname
2015-05-26  8:29           ` NeilBrown
2015-05-26 13:18             ` Another Sillyname
2015-05-24 11:12         ` Fwd: " Wols Lists
2015-05-24 11:57           ` Brad Campbell [this message]
2015-05-24 12:41             ` Wols Lists
2015-05-24 13:48               ` Brad Campbell
2015-05-24 14:06               ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2015-05-24 14:53                 ` Wols Lists
2015-05-24 14:57                   ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2015-05-25 21:03                     ` Another Sillyname
2015-05-25 23:20                       ` Wols Lists
2015-05-26  7:08                         ` Another Sillyname
2015-05-26  8:06                           ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2015-05-26 11:18                             ` Another Sillyname
2015-05-26 14:08                               ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2015-05-26 20:11                                 ` Wols Lists
2015-05-26 21:02                                   ` Another Sillyname
2015-05-27  4:59                                   ` Mikael Abrahamsson

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