Re: install Etch with raid level 10

[Giacomo Mulas <gmulas@ca.astro.it>]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, A J Stiles wrote:

> Also, *don't* use a RAID1 for swap space:  it impacts performance with
> little practical benefit.

Just for the sake of knowing: doesn't it have the (possibly very important)
benefit that your computer will not crash due to memory corruption if one of
your swap partition goes ga-ga? I suppose this would be the only reason to
possibly do swap on raid.

Bye
Giacomo

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