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From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@dkuug.dk>
To: Moshe Yudkowsky <moshe@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information?
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:53:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080130005311.GA12717@rap.rap.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479FC5B6.10308@pobox.com>

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:32:54PM -0600, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:
> 
> >Hmm, why would you put swap on a raid10? I would in a production
> >environment always put it on separate swap partitions, possibly a number,
> >given that a number of drives are available.
> 
> In a production server, however, I'd use swap on RAID in order to 
> prevent server downtime if a disk fails -- a suddenly bad swap can 
> easily (will absolutely?) cause the server to crash (even though you can 
> boot the server up again afterwards on the surviving swap partitions).

I see. Which file system type would be good for this?
I normally use XFS but maybe other FS is better, given that swap is used
very randomly 8read/write).

Will a bad swap crash the system?

best regards
keld

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-30  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-29  4:44 In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information? Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29  5:08 ` Neil Brown
2008-01-29 11:02   ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 11:14     ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29 11:29       ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 14:09         ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-29 14:07       ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-29 14:47         ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29 15:13           ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-29 15:41             ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29 16:51               ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-29 17:51                 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-29 16:16             ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 16:34               ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29 19:34                 ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 20:21                   ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-29 22:14                     ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 23:45                       ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-30  0:13                         ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-30 22:36                           ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-30  0:17                       ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-29 23:44                   ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-30  0:22                     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-30  0:26                       ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-30 22:39                         ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-30  0:32                       ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-30  0:53                         ` Keld Jørn Simonsen [this message]
2008-01-30  1:00                           ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-31 14:40                             ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-30 13:11                   ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-30 14:10                     ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-30 14:41                       ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-31 14:59                       ` Bill Davidsen
2008-02-02 20:17                         ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-30 12:01                 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29 16:42               ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-29 16:26             ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-29 16:46               ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-29 18:01                 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-30 13:37                   ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-30 14:47                     ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-30 15:21                       ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-30 15:35                         ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-30 15:46                           ` Loop devices to RAID? (was Re: In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information?) Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-30 15:56                             ` Tim Southerwood
2008-01-29 15:57           ` In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information? Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 16:37             ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-29 16:57               ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-30 11:03             ` David Greaves
2008-01-30 11:44               ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-30 12:00                 ` WRONG INFO (was Re: In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information?) Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-30 12:41                   ` David Greaves
2008-01-30 13:39                   ` Michael Tokarev
2008-02-04 16:49               ` In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information? John Stoffel
2008-02-04 17:26                 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-01-30 11:03           ` David Greaves
2008-01-29 14:48         ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-29 16:00           ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-29 16:25             ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29 14:04     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen

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