Re: No swap on my Debian Sid system
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 08:48:01PM +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote:
> Upon reboot swap was activated:
>
> jack@nostromo:~$ dmesg | grep swap
> Adding 498004k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:498004k
> Adding 498004k swap on /dev/sdb2. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:498004k
>
> Would it give any advantage to RAID the swap too or is it just good like
> this?
If you like your system crashing when a disk fails, then no there is no
advantage to having swap on raid. If you like the system to continue
running until you are ready to deal with a failed disk, then you put
swap on raid1.
Len Sorensen
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