On Tuesday 14 October 2003 10:50, alexander.weber@pta.de wrote: > Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: > > 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? > > Yes and yes. One other possible alternative would be to fork out the > money for more RAM rather than a second disk for swap. And just don't > use swap, if you're worried about swap crashing the system...and > performance will be much better, too. > > <snip> > > And how about swap-partitions on both disks? So on disk crash, one swap > partition would survive. > This works, won't it? AFAIK if you create 2 swap devices on 2 disks, they are used similar to disk striping (RAID0). This speeds the swap up but if one disk dies a part of your swap is concerned. If anything important is swapped out on this swap, I assume the machine will crash. Best Regards, Hermann -- x1@aon.at GPG key ID: 299893C7 (on keyservers) FP: 0124 2584 8809 EF2A DBF9 4902 64B4 D16B 2998 93C7 - 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
