I agree, but for a different reason. Your reason is new to me. I don't want a down system due to a single disk failure. Loosing the swap disk would kill the system. Maybe this is Peter's cause of frequent corruption? I mirror everything, or RAID5. Normally, no downtime due to disk failures. Guy -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brad Campbell Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 5:57 AM To: Alvin Oga Cc: Andy Smith; linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: ext3 journal on software raid (was Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard) Alvin Oga wrote: > > for swap ... i personally don't see any reason to mirror > swap partitions ... > - once the system dies, ( power off ), all temp > data is useless unless one continues from a coredump > ( from the same state as when it went down initially ) I beg to differ on this one. Having spend several weeks tracking down random processes dying on a machine that turned out to be a bad sector in the swap partition, I have had great results by running swap on a RAID-1. If you develop a bad sector in a non-mirrored swap, bad things happen indeterminately and can be a royal PITA to chase down. It's just a little extra piece of mind. Regards, Brad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
