[PLUG] Debian install and RAID 1

[Jason Martin]

On 3/23/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:32:51 -0700
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:
>
> > Now I'm going to go beat up Debian some more to see if I can figure out
> > how to get it to create Raid partitions. :)
>
> Well that didn't go well.
>
> I finally figured out how to create the RAID partitions with the Debian
> amd64 installer. That user interface needs serious work. Like scap it
> and start over from the beginning. :(
>
> I created a 2 GB swap on sda1 and a 45 GB ext3 partition for / on sda2,
> mirrored to their counterparts: sdb1 and sdb2. After I finally

By the way, software raid on swap partitions is rather pointless, and
may in fact make swap slower.  You really should just create two
normal swap partitions, one on each drive, but not raid.  The kernel
will use them in a nice efficient manner to maximize performance.

Jason