From: "Tomas France" <tomfra@centrum.cz>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SWAP file on a RAID-10 array possible?
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:28:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02db01c7df27$04321c60$332317ac@Cortex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 46C2D101.8050205@dgreaves.com
Thanks for the answer, David!
I kind of think RAID-10 is a very good choice for a swap file. For now I
will need to setup the swap file on a simple RAID-1 array anyway, I just
need to be prepared when it's time to add more disks and transform the whole
thing into RAID-10... which will be big fun anyway, for sure ;)
By the way, does anyone know if there is a comprehensive how-to on software
RAID with mdadm available somewhere? I mean a website where I could get
answers to questions like "How to convert your system from no RAID to
RAID-1, from RAID-1 to RAID-5/10, how to setup LILO/GRUB to boot from a
RAID-1 array" etc. Don't take me wrong, I have "done my homework" and found
a lot of info on the topic but a lot of it is several years old and many
things have changed since then. And it's quite scattered too..
Tomas
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Greaves" <david@dgreaves.com>
To: "Tomas France" <tomfra@centrum.cz>
Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: SWAP file on a RAID-10 array possible?
> Tomas France wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I apologize for asking such a fundamental question on the Linux-RAID list
>> but the answers I found elsewhere have been contradicting one another.
>>
>> So, is it possible to have a swap file on a RAID-10 array?
> yes.
>
> mkswap /dev/md<X>
> swapon /dev/md<X>
>
> Should you use RAID-10 for swap? That's philosophy :)
>
> David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-15 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-07 8:16 Linux RAID migration saeed bishara
2007-08-07 8:26 ` Tuomas Leikola
2007-08-07 10:02 ` saeed bishara
2007-08-07 10:22 ` Neil Brown
2007-08-07 10:32 ` saeed bishara
2007-08-07 10:46 ` saeed bishara
2007-08-07 11:18 ` Neil Brown
2007-08-07 11:31 ` saeed bishara
2007-08-07 11:40 ` Neil Brown
2007-08-07 13:27 ` saeed bishara
2007-08-07 15:15 ` saeed bishara
2007-08-09 3:23 ` Neil Brown
2007-08-15 9:02 ` SWAP file on a RAID-10 array possible? Tomas France
2007-08-15 10:10 ` David Greaves
2007-08-15 10:28 ` Tomas France [this message]
2007-08-15 12:59 ` David Greaves
2007-08-15 14:32 ` Daniel Korstad
2007-08-15 21:42 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-08-18 8:52 ` Tomas France
2007-08-15 22:02 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-08-07 10:37 ` Linux RAID migration Tomasz Chmielewski
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