Ryan Wagoner wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: <snip> >>> 3. Create other mount points I might want i.e swap, /home, etc >>> 4. Create RAID1 out of these partitions >> >> Only if you want each directory RAIDed. DO NOT mirror swap. Bad idea. > > You want to mirror swap. If a drive fails your swap immediately goes > offline. If an application had memory in swap it is now lost. <snip> Mmmm... but if a drive goes down, then swap could quite easily be in an undefined state, part-way through the mirroring. mark