From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen Subject: Re: In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information? Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:53:11 +0100 Message-ID: <20080130005311.GA12717@rap.rap.dk> References: <479F0AAB.3090702@rabbit.us> <479F331F.7080902@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <479F3C74.1050605@rabbit.us> <479F42A5.8040007@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <479F5177.6060206@pobox.com> <479F557D.20502@rabbit.us> <479F7FCD.7030106@pobox.com> <479FBA54.6010009@tmr.com> <20080130002237.GC7975@rap.rap.dk> <479FC5B6.10308@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <479FC5B6.10308@pobox.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Moshe Yudkowsky Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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