Andy Smith wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Good point. I hadn't thought of it like that.
cheers
Chris
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