[CentOS] Booting Software RAID

Thu Jan 30 21:50:59 UTC 2014
Always Learning <centos at u62.u22.net>

On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 16:35 -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> Paul Heinlein wrote:

> > A RAID 1 of (relatively) inexpensive 80GB or 120GB SSDs are my
> > default for swap and the root filesystem. Larger /srv filesystems,
>> and the NAS holding /home, still require spinning platters on our
>> budget.

> That's a *huge* amount of swap - we settled, years ago, and I think
> upstream recommends, 2G. Now, around here, our servers have
> *significantly* more than 2G, and if we see anything in swap, we know
> something's wrong.

We don't allocate Swap. Instead we have large RAM and put tmp
directories etc. on a RAM disk.

-- 
Paul.
England,
EU.

   Our systems are exclusively Linux. No Micro$oft Windoze here.