Re: Software RAID

What happens when drive /dev/sda goes bad?

Everything in swap on /dev/sda is gone. Will the system crash?

Adam Bultman wrote:
> NOOO!!!
>
> Swap goes on Swap. You do NOT set up swap on software RAID.
>
> You take say, hda1 and make it type fd, and you make hda2 type swap.
> You take say, hdb1 and make it type fd, and you make hdb2 type swap.
>
> Then, in /etc/fstab, you specify the swap partitions on both.
>
> If you put swap on a RAID1 setup, you'll nuke performance and that's what
> you need with swap.- it'll be syncing every single write to swap, and swap
> isn't somethingyou need to make redundant. Just make enough swap on each
> drive and mount 'em anyway. If it dies, it dies.
>
>
> Adam
>
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Damien Hull wrote:
>
>
>> Does swap need to be on a RAID partition?
>>
>> I'm doing software RAID 1 on Ubuntu Dapper. I couldn't get it to work
>> the first time. The screen says I need to reboot :-) . Maybe it's
>> working now.
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Received on Tue Sep 26 15:38:05 2006