Hi There,
Yes I agree, I always raid the swap.....when the original install was done a staff member (who I have now fired :-) ) did not raid the swap partitions at install time, leaving me with this problem after raiding them subsequently
P.
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2005 at 9:03am, Daniel J. Cody wrote
Hey Peter,
I guess I could set the swap back to an unmirrored set, run the upgrade from the CDs then mirror it again, but this is not ideal, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix this little RAID niggle with the swap caused by not RAIDing the swap parition originally on install?
I wouldn't personally recommend using software raid on swap partitions since it causes all sorts of problems like you're describing. If you want to get raid type performance from your swap partitions, I'd suggest just letting the kernel itself handle that.
The main purpose of putting swap on a mirrored array is not performance. It allows the system to stay up and running should a disk fail. Mirroring the system disk is pretty much pointless if the system is going to die upon losing a disk anyway b/c half the swap is now gone.