On 14.12.2010 19:49, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hey, Jason, > > Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: >> >> I have a new system with 2 Seagate 1TB SATA Enterprise level drives in it. >> >> I want to RAID1 (mirror) these drives. > <snip> >> So if I simplify, I must: >> 1. Create a software raid partition on each drive >> 2. Create a RAID 1 out of that partition and use a mount point of /boot > > Only if you want to mirror the boot partition. >> >> 3. Create other mount points I might want i.e swap, /home, etc >> 4. Create RAID1 out of these partitions > > Only if you want each directory RAIDed. DO NOT mirror swap. Bad idea. > <snip> I am surprised. I always done /boot partitions as raid 1 and I always did swap as raid 1 and therefore I would be interested about any arguments (well better facts) against doing so. -- Best Regards, Markus Falb
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