[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[John Hearns]

On 13 October 2010 16:18, Tethys <sta296 at astradyne.co.uk> wrote:
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> John Edwards writes:
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>>Are there any performance hits for swap on LVM on RAID?
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> Swapping is itself so glacially slow that any extra overhead
> added by LVM or RAID will be utterly irrelevant. If you're
> worried about performance, then build your machine so that
> it doesn't swap in the first place.

LVM or RAID? Hah. Real Men (TM) use swap over iSCSI.

'Tis not as barking mad as it sounds - consider if you will a rack
full of diskless compute blades.
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