On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 skopel@english.fsu.edu wrote: > I have been following the discussion of swap on raid 1 and I just want to > clarify something... I have my swap on /dev/md1, which is a raid1 device > consisting of /dev/hda2 and /dev/hdc2. > If one of the drives fails (either hda or hdc), I think the swap will be > duplicated on the other and the box will continue merrily on, right? Thats the general idea, and exactly what I have here... (although I'd use the term 'mirrored' rather than 'duplicated' as that appears more often in the documentation about RADI1, but it's a minor point) gordon @ unicorn: cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/md1 partition 499896 53272 -1 gordon @ unicorn: cat /proc/mdstat ... md1 : active raid1 hdc2[1] hda2[0] 499904 blocks [2/2] [UU] ... 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