alternate (RAID1) install

[Rashkae]

On 02/27/2012 07:47 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> Note that you can't, AFAIK, mirror swap partitions, but you wouldn't
> want to. Just make 2 × half-size swap partitions: so if you want 4GB
> swap, make 2 × 2GB partitions. The kernel will use two, no problem.
I'll have to respectfully disagree.

1. You can, in fact, mirror swap partitions, (or any other form of 
raid.)  Just use the md device as your swap.

2.  The purpose of raid is not backup, it's reliability.  You want the 
computer to keep running and automagically recover from hard drive 
failures.  If you're swap is not on a raid and a hard drive hiccups, the 
OS will crash.