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On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:22:19PM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > Linux software raid 1 rocks. It is even bootable. You should put > your swap on raid too. With two swap partitions, you have twice the amount of swap as if you RAID-mirrored it, and Linux knows how to alternate requests from each partition, so there's even a performance advantage. Odds are good that if you have a disaster that takes out a swap partition, you want to be rebooting immediately anyway... -dsr-
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