From: Frank Wittig <fw@weisshuhn.de>
To: eric@pretorious.net
Cc: Laurent CARON <lcaron@gw.unix-scripts.info>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID1: What happens when one half of a mirror fails?
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:53:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42C44DD6.5060901@weisshuhn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506301215.39271.eric@pretorious.net>
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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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-30 19:53 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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