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Re: What is the point of RAID?



On Fri, 07 Nov 2008, Mike Bird wrote:
> systems have RAID / and RAID /boot.  Some have RAID swap, although
> there are performance tradeoffs to be considered for RAID swap.

Well, I hope you ARE aware that the box will lock up hard or panic if
anything happens to the device hosting the swap AND it needs to swap in or
out.

Better to swap to file inside the RAID array, or to not have a swap
partition at all, if you are not going to protect it.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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