Re: 256MB RAM systems can need 1GB swap... Re: Partitioning....

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

Quoting Liran Zvibel (liranz@math.tau.ac.il):
> 2. Putting the swap in several different disks does make the access time
> faster, but this is not the issue of RAID. RAIDs are good for their
> ability to continue working even though one of the disks is not working
> anymore (the RAID3 keeps an extra disk for parity bits, while the RAID5
> does it on the "regular" disks.)

You're forgetting RAID0, which stripes data across multiple drives but
does not include any error-recovery.

Mike Stone