[NBLUG/talk] RAID1 and partitions

Robert P. Thille list-nblug-talk at rangat.org
Mon May 4 11:52:40 PDT 2015


> On May 1, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Mark Street <jet at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would go with your gut.  Putting swap on md0 just does not sound like a good thing to do.
Why not?  Performance reduction?

>  Your experience with CentOS is similar to what I have done in the past.  Is this software RAID?  How much RAM and CPU do you have?  Depending on your answer you may not need much swap.  If any, put it at the end... or create a swap file on /

Just remember when creating your swap partition/file that if it’s not on a raid volume and you lose the drive it’s on and you swap, then you crash.

Robert


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