Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:30:45PM +0100, Soenke von Stamm wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 23. November 2005 12:16 schrieb Lionel Elie Mamane:
> > If you are trying to construct a system that will survive a disk
> > failure, you need swap to be redundant, too. Else programs that have
> > swapped pages to the wrong disk will die when they need those pages
> > again.
>
> That's what I suggested with "With hot swappable disks perheaps?"
I think all SATA is hot-swappable...?
Admittedly not everyone will need the system to not even crash if a disk
dies. But since you're RAID1ing the rest of the system, might as well
add the swap too. With modern RAM prices, hopefully you're hardly using
the swap anyway.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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