[PLUG] Debian install and RAID 1

Elliott Mitchell ehem at m5p.com
Sat Mar 24 18:16:09 UTC 2007


>From: "Jason Martin" <nsxfreddy at gmail.com>
> 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.

Stripping swap slices with Linux is pointless, as doing multiple swap
slices is faster. Mirroring or any of the other true RAID modes isn't
pointless with swap. Multiple swap slices won't give you the redundancy,
merely be simpler than stripes. Though if you lose a disk you may have to
restart anyway.


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