From: Andy Smith <andy@lug.org.uk>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID1: What happens when one half of a mirror fails?
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:07:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050727100710.GL6594@strugglers.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1122438610.28969.201.camel@seki.nac.uci.edu>
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:30:09PM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> If a little downtime is no big deal, and you could use a little extra
> disk space, then sure, don't mirror swap.
>
> If downtime is more important than the loss of a little disk space, then
> do mirror swap.
>
> Before you say that disk is always cheaper than downtime, recall that
> sometimes there'll be a layer of bureaucracy between you and the
> purchase of a new disk.
But in that case if you mirror swap then you can have the pleasure
of working through the bureaucracy while the server is still up. :)
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-30 17:24 RAID1: What happens when one half of a mirror fails? Eric Pretorious
2005-06-30 18:20 ` Frank Wittig
2005-06-30 19:03 ` Laurent CARON
2005-06-30 19:15 ` Eric Pretorious
2005-06-30 19:53 ` Frank Wittig
2005-07-03 6:41 ` raz ben jehuda
2005-07-03 15:43 ` Frank Wittig
2005-07-03 16:12 ` raz ben jehuda
2005-07-27 4:30 ` Dan Stromberg
2005-07-27 10:07 ` Andy Smith [this message]
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