On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:30:45PM +0100, Soenke von Stamm wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 23. November 2005 12:16 schrieb Lionel Elie Mamane: > > If you are trying to construct a system that will survive a disk > > failure, you need swap to be redundant, too. Else programs that have > > swapped pages to the wrong disk will die when they need those pages > > again. > > That's what I suggested with "With hot swappable disks perheaps?"
I think all SATA is hot-swappable...? Admittedly not everyone will need the system to not even crash if a disk dies. But since you're RAID1ing the rest of the system, might as well add the swap too. With modern RAM prices, hopefully you're hardly using the swap anyway. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
