Swap in RAID1?

[A. Khattri]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Net Llama! wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, A. Khattri wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> >
> > > I've been hold that it'll crash anyway if you put swap in RAID and a drive
> > > fails. But won't it crash if you have two swaps and one goes away?
> >
> > I always keep them outside of an RAID scheme - I can always switch off a
> > swap partition on a bad drive.
>
> And what happens if you only have that 1?


If you're using RAID, then the assumption here is that you have several
drives and each one has a swap partition that is not part of the RAID
array. (So there is more than 1 swap partition anyway).



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