[Gllug] Server setup

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 00:51 +0000, Jan Kokoska wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 23:34 +0000, George Wright wrote:
> 

> Traditionally, I has been recommended against putting your swap space on
> SW RAID, so don't do it.

Ah - why not?

>  Set up two swapspaces instead ('mkswap',
> 'swapon' and editing '/etc/fstab' are helpful).

That uses the kernel's ability to stripe swap. Nice, but not redundant.
If you do this, and a disk fails, your machine will crash if there was
any important paged out data on the dead disk. Not what most people
setting up RAID systems want.....

Mike.

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