[CentOS] Shrinking a volume group

Tue Sep 12 20:22:09 UTC 2006
Daniel de Kok <danieldk at pobox.com>

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 15:48 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> Yes, leave it as a mirrored partition so when memory is swapped out to a
> disk that dies, your server does not panic.

Yep, that's pretty sensible, especially if you have fast disks. With
older, slower disks, and relatively little memory it becomes a trade-off
that is worth consideration.

-- Daniel