From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: raz ben jehuda Subject: Re: RAID1: What happens when one half of a mirror fails? Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 09:41:04 +0300 Message-ID: <1120372864.3368.1.camel@raz-laptop> References: <200506301024.13126.eric@pretorious.net> <42C44210.7010204@gw.unix-scripts.info> <200506301215.39271.eric@pretorious.net> <42C44DD6.5060901@weisshuhn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <42C44DD6.5060901@weisshuhn.de> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids i had a "system hanging" when both swap and root file system were on the raid. for that i added line in the kernel that removes the bad disk from the operating system. On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 22:53, Frank Wittig wrote: > Eric Pretorious wrote: > > On Thursday 30 June 2005 12:03 pm, Laurent CARON wrote: > > > >>is the swap partition on raid? > > > > > > No. swap both swap partitions are formatted as standard swap partitions and mounted via /etc/fstab. > > > > That's no good idea. If a disk fails which contains a swap partition to > which data has been swapped the system will crash. > Therefor it is important to use mirrored partitions for swap. -- Raz Long Live The Penguin