i had a "system hanging" when both swap and root file system were on the raid. for that i added line in the kernel that removes the bad disk from the operating system. On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 22:53, Frank Wittig wrote: > Eric Pretorious wrote: > > On Thursday 30 June 2005 12:03 pm, Laurent CARON wrote: > > > >>is the swap partition on raid? > > > > > > No. swap both swap partitions are formatted as standard swap partitions and mounted via /etc/fstab. > > > > That's no good idea. If a disk fails which contains a swap partition to > which data has been swapped the system will crash. > Therefor it is important to use mirrored partitions for swap. -- Raz Long Live The Penguin - 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
