[CentOS] puzzling md error ?

[John R Pierce]

JohnS wrote:
> Then any reason to not run the PERC in the 2850?  Non of my DB machines
> run SWAP period.  My thoughts on Linux swap is if I were to use it, it
> can't keep up the sync pace, been there.
>
>   

these 2850 have only JBOD SCSI.  PERC was an option, i didn't buy these, 
I inherited them.

> I realize I say no swap but with MS DesktopEngine and SQL-CEServer I use
> swap.
>   

The oracle installer complains if you don't have swap >= main memory.   
I realize I can choose to ignore that.