Re: Fwd: swap

To: Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@yahoo.com>
Cc: debian-users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>, debian64 <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: swap
From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 10:03:00 -0400
Message-id: <20070507140300.GF8751@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
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On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:10:11AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Below I mean adding a single HD not to the raid, just
> as additional space where to point the swap file
> thanks

Running a raid1 system with non raid swap just doesn't make sense.  If
the swap drive fails, your system dies horribly possible in ways that
could mess up the filesystem.  Why make a system with redundancy
suddenly have none?  Better to buy a pair of those drives and run swap
on another raid1.

--
Len Sorensen

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