software raid

[Jonathan Romero]

Excellent point.

On 3/22/06, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:30:27PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > Placing swap on a raid1 is kind of silly.  Swap space by definition
> > is temporary so there is no need for the security raid1 provides.
>
> Is it?  The purpose of raid is to survive a disk dying.  When is the
> disk going to die?  Possibly when the computer is running, in which
> case having the swap on raid 1 means you don't have to crash.
>
>
> -kb
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