On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:27:45 +0200 Pascal Hambourg <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Raid is meant to protect your data. The benefit for raiding your swap is > > much less, and *should* be negligible. > > No, this is what backup is meant to. RAID does not protect your data > against accidental or malicious deletion or corruption. RAID is meant to > provide availabity. The benefit of having everything including swap on > RAID is that the system as a whole will continue to operate normally > when a drive fails. I think the key decider in whether or not a RAIDed swap should be a must-have, is whether the system has hot-swap bays for drives. Also, it seemed like the discussion began in the context of setting up a home machine, or something otherwise not as mission-critical. And in those cases, almost nobody will have hot-swap. As such, if you have to bring down the machine to replace a drive anyway, might as well tolerate the risk of it going down with a bang (due to a part of swap going away), and enjoy a faster swap on either RAID0 or multiple independent swap zones for the rest of the time. -- With respect, Roman
