Re: [Hampshire] RAID advice please

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Author: Andy Smith
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] RAID advice please

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On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:10:17PM +0000, Chris Dennis wrote:
> Andy Smith wrote:
> >For future consideration what I normally do is have a /boot as /dev/md0
> >RAID-1, a / as /dev/md1 RAID-1 or -10, swap /dev/md2 RAID-1 or -10
> >and then everything else is /dev/md3 LVM physical volume with
> >logical volumes for whatever other filesystems I need.
>
> Why have swap on RAID1? Doesn't that just double the amount of disk
> access needed to do the swapping?


Sure but I prefer my machines not to keel over when a disk dies,
which is what would happen if it tried to swap to a dead device.

Exact same argument applies to all disk-backed filesystems.

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