Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 6 authors, 2005-07-27

Re: RAID1: What happens when one half of a mirror fails?

From: Frank Wittig <hidden>
Date: 2005-06-30 19:53:58

Eric Pretorious wrote:
On Thursday 30 June 2005 12:03 pm, Laurent CARON wrote:
quoted
is the swap partition on raid?

No. swap both swap partitions are formatted as standard swap partitions and mounted via /etc/fstab.
That's no good idea. If a disk fails which contains a swap partition to
which data has been swapped the system will crash.
Therefor it is important to use mirrored partitions for swap.

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