On 03/10/2010 08:37 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I wanted to know if I configure my three identical disks as followed: > > - sda1 = /boot @ 4GB > - sda2 = RAID @ 300GB > > - sdb1 = Swap @ 4GB > - sdb2 = RAID @ 300GB > > - sdc1 = Swap @ 4GB > - sdc2 = RAID @ 300GB > > Now when I am done configuring RAID, will Arch Linux show I have 8GB > of Swap space total under a tool like 'htop' or something like this? > Will the above configuration work? Or Should I change it? > It will probably work, but I would change it. When I mirror a drive, I want "mirrored" drives (swap & boot included). For me, the purpose behind mirrored raid is to handle a drive failure. When one occurs, all I want to be required to do is reinstall grub on the remaining good drive, change fstab and reboot on a single drive until I get a replacement drive and then rebuild the array. Yes, I know if you just want disk redundancy for data storage, then you need not mirror the whole disk. But when swap is no more than 4 gig and /boot is no more than 150M, with at 750G drive the amount of data loss incurred due to mirroring a complete drive is less than 1% and for the convenience of instant recovery, it is worth it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
