Re: Sarge RAID install
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 06:19:42PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:19:42 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>
> To: WA9ALS - John <wa9als@starband.net>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Sarge RAID install
>
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, WA9ALS - John wrote:
>
> > Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would
> > someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the
> > simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! -
> > John
>
> if you're using the sarge installer ... you can have lots of fun fiddling
> with it
>
> the basics ... if you're looking for things to look for
>
> fdisk -l /dev/hda -> shoyld say its "FD" partition type
>
> in /etc/fstab
> /dev/md0 / ... regular stuff ..
> /dev/md1 /swap ... regular swap stuff ..
What are benefits of having swap on raid? Isn't better to have two
swap partitions on different disks and let the kernel to do load
balancing? I'm thinking to install software raid, but cannot decide
whether to put swap on raid or not. Where can I read more about it?
Thanks.
--
Alexei Chetroi
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