On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: > Hi, > I am considering putting my Swap on a RAID1. > > I am aware that using 2 seperate Swap-Spaces without RAID would probably > speed things up as Linux distributes the swap. > > But what happens if a disk fails and the swap is on this disk? I assume > Linux would crash? Wouldn't a swap on a RAID prevent such a crash? It works for me. I even have it on RAID5 on some servers I manage. Swap is no substitute for memory though - if you are worried about swap speed, then get more memory. Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
