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From: Brad Campbell <brad@fnarfbargle.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Installing Linux directly onto RAID6 Array...........
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 19:57:24 +0800
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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
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