From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Matthews Subject: Re: RAID Configuration For New Home Server Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 18:57:17 -0700 Message-ID: References: <6B.E5.17309.334EA0C4@cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com> <20100606010420.GA26325@rap.rap.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100606010420.GA26325@rap.rap.dk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Leslie Rhorer Cc: Mark Knecht , Carlos Mennens , Mdadm List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Keld Simonsen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 06:56:31PM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote: >> > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0It's certainly workable. =A0You might consider so= mething other than >> > > RAID1 for your swap partition. >> > >> > Looks reasonable. Some comments: >> > >> >> > 2) I don't use RAID for swap. I let the kernel do that internally.= I >> > almost never swap out on my home server so trying to protect that = with >> > RAID for the few moments I might use it seems like overkill to me. >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 I halfway agree. =A0My servers almost never use any sign= ificant amount >> of swap, and even my workstations only use it very occasionally. =A0= There have >> been instances, however, where the swap has grown to be quite large.= =A0With >> that in mind, and given the very small amount he has allocated for s= wap, one >> might suggest a RAID0 array of the areas to be used for swap, or may= be an >> LVM volume. > > If you use some mirrored RAID for swap, your system will continue to = run, if > one of your disks go bad. Then you can replace the faulty disk at a l= ater, > and possibly more convenient time. > > If you do not have RAID, your system will most likely go down, if the= swap partiion > is damaged. Or if you put your swap on a RAID0 device. Simon. -- 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