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Re: What is the point of RAID?



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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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.

So I have discovered.  Thanks.

Ken
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