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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 13:38:22 +0400
From: Peter Zaitsev <pz@spylog.ru>
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Subject: Re[2]: Is  Swapping on software RAID1 possible  in linux 2.4 ?
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Hello Nick,

Thursday, July 05, 2001, 6:54:37 PM, you wrote:

Well The idea is simple. I want my system to survive if one of the
disk fails. So I store all of my data including swap on RAID
partitions.


ND> Just out of curiousity what are the advantages to having a RAID1 swap
ND> partition?  Setting the swap priority to 0 (pri=0) in the fstab of all
ND> the swap partitions on your system should have the same effect as doing
ND> it with RAID but without the overhead, right?  RAID1 would also mirror
ND> your swap.  Why would you want that? 

ND> Regards,
ND>         -Nick

ND> Peter Zaitsev wrote:
>> 
>> Hello linux-kernel,
>> 
>>   Does anyone have information on this subject ?  I have the constant
>>   failures with system swapping on RAID1, I just wanted to be shure
>>   this may be the problem or not.   It works without any problems with
>>   2.2 kernel.
>> 
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>  Peter                          mailto:pz@spylog.ru
>> 
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 Peter                            mailto:pz@spylog.ru

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