From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Another Sillyname Subject: Re: Fwd: Installing Linux directly onto RAID6 Array........... Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 12:18:09 +0100 Message-ID: References: <555294A0.6040703@websitemanagers.com.au> <5561B237.4040709@youngman.org.uk> <5561BCA4.4060904@fnarfbargle.com> <5561C6E9.3060706@youngman.org.uk> <5561E5CE.7000304@youngman.org.uk> <5563AE50.4090806@youngman.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Mikael Very easy to understand......any way that requires entering the swaps into /etc/fstab therefore means that if any drive and it's contained swap fails the reboot can fail (plus the overhead of all those uuid numbers in fstab). My way means that as the swaps don't get loaded unless the drive is alive the reboot has more resilience. On 26 May 2015 at 09:06, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2015, Another Sillyname wrote: > >> Not bothered about raiding the swap thanks, my way will suffice as it >> gives me maximum flexibility and resilience......I'm not really >> performance driven on this project. > > > I don't see how running swap natively on the drives gives "maximum > resilience". Higher resilience is gained by running raid1 for swap. > > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se