From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Rabbitson Subject: Re: In this partition scheme, grub does not find md information? Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:26:15 +0100 Message-ID: <479FC427.1080007@rabbit.us> References: <18334.46306.611615.493031@notabene.brown> <479F07E1.7060408@pobox.com> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080130002237.GC7975@rap.rap.dk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: =?UTF-8?B?S2VsZCBKw7hybiBTaW1vbnNlbg==?= Cc: Bill Davidsen , Moshe Yudkowsky , Michael Tokarev , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Keld J=C3=B8rn Simonsen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:44:20PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >=20 >> Depending on near/far choices, raid10 should be faster than raid5, w= ith=20 >> far read should be quite a bit faster. You can't boot off raid10, an= d if=20 >> you put your swap on it many recovery CDs won't use it. But for gene= ral=20 >> use and swap on a normally booted system it is quite fast. >=20 > Hmm, why would you put swap on a raid10? I would in a production > environment always put it on separate swap partitions, possibly a num= ber, > given that a number of drives are available. >=20 Because you want some redundancy for the swap as well. A swap partition= /file=20 becoming inaccessible is equivalent to yanking out a stick of memory ou= t of=20 your motherboard. Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html