Re: install Etch with raid level 10

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

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Something like that.  The crash issue on disk failure though makes
> seperate swap so not worth considering.  The idea of raid was to avoid
> data loss due to drive failure, not to make it more likely.

Yes. So it's just a matter of priorities: if your top priority is
reliability, do swap on raid with redundance; if your top priority is as
fast as possible number crunching and you don't mind the increased risk of
losing the last day or so of results, do swap on separate partitions without
raid. I have a number of both extremal situations, with a larger number
somewhere in-between :)

Bye
Giacomo

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