nice, well, considering everything... 1)partitions + raid1 is prefered for read speed and security 2)fileswap only if i can't add partitions 3)only use swap over single drive if don't have two devices (in this case use raid1) 4)there's no badblock layer in linux, each layer / filesystem must implement it by yourself that's all right? -- 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