[CentOS] RAID help

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Tue Dec 14 21:36:50 UTC 2010


On 12/14/10 1:08 PM, Markus Falb wrote:
>> Only if you want each directory RAIDed. DO NOT mirror swap. Bad idea.
>> >  <snip>
> I am surprised. I always done /boot partitions as raid 1 and I always
> did swap as raid 1 and therefore I would be interested about any
> arguments (well better facts) against doing so.

if you don't mirror swap, when any swap volume fails your system hard 
crashes, negating the entire purpose of RAID.





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