On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:32:54PM -0600, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: > > >Hmm, why would you put swap on a raid10? I would in a production > >environment always put it on separate swap partitions, possibly a number, > >given that a number of drives are available. > > In a production server, however, I'd use swap on RAID in order to > prevent server downtime if a disk fails -- a suddenly bad swap can > easily (will absolutely?) cause the server to crash (even though you can > boot the server up again afterwards on the surviving swap partitions). I see. Which file system type would be good for this? I normally use XFS but maybe other FS is better, given that swap is used very randomly 8read/write). Will a bad swap crash the system? best regards keld - 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
