On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:24:55 -0700 Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rick Thomas wrote: > > Another point about using a separate swap vs including swap on the > > encrypted LVM: On a server, the LVM will almost certainly be on a > > RAID. There's no point in putting swap on RAID. > > Strongly disagree. The point of raid is to keep the machine running > in spite of a disk failure. If you don't put swap on raid then a disk > failure of your swap disk will crash your system. By putting swap on > raid the system keeps running. > > Bob Agreed, I also maintain some servers and the swap is on raid. I have faced disk failure on some servers and due to raid, I could successfully run the server with the single disk and change the bad disk with a 30 min. down time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
