On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 10:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 17:44 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > > > This toasted your /swp partition. > > Raid 0 is striping, and a single failure toasts the entire device. > > > > You would have been ahead with a non-raid swap, and had 3 separate > > partitions, one on each device, for swap. Failure of one would not have > > toasted all. > > Yes, but losing swap will kill any processes that happened to be > using it. The results of continuing to run with unpredictable > things happening might be worse than crashing immediately. > I never said loss of a swap partition would not have consequences. I said that by using multiple partitions for swap that losing one would not totally lose the swap. A reboot with one failed will continue to use the remaining parts and at least part of the swap will be available. > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > >
