On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 12:37:18PM +0200, David Brown wrote: > On 06/05/11 23:05, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > > These systems use so little swap space and so rarely, I'm not sure I > >see any benefit to RAID10,f2 for them. Is there? > > > > Obviously when you use swap rarely, it makes little difference how it is > laid out on the disk. And since it is small, there is no difference > between the speed of the outer and inner tracks (for HD's - for SSD's > there is obviously no difference), so you don't gain there. raid10,f2 > will still be better than raid1 for larger reads from swap - but I think > you would have a hard time trying to spot that effect in the real world. I think swap on raid10,f2 mostly matters on workstations, where you have big apps like OpenOffice.org or firefox, and limited RAM. 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
