Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

Hi,

here are some LVM basics to get you started..

http://www.linuxconfig.org/Linux_lvm_-_Logical_Volume_Manager

lubos

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Serge van
Ginderachter<serge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
2009/7/9 Alex Samad <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Creating a swap partition on a software RAID device isn't ideal. It is
better to create a swap partition on each of the physical devices and
give them the same priority (in /etc/fstab). That's only one example,
you could also use a disk that isn't part of the RAID and have only
one swap partition ...

what happens if there is something important swapped out and that drive
dies ?  I could understand not wanting to put it on lvm and then raid1..

I agree with that. One generally uses RAID to keep a host running when
a disk failure occurs. If swap is not mirrored, processes wil crash,
or worst case the box might crash.

If performance is an issue, then you'd better go hardware raid.

Unless someone knows of another strong reason not to put swap on raid?

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