Steve Swantz wrote: > > On 2/2/06, *Josh Trutwin* <josh at trutwins.homeip.net > <mailto:josh at trutwins.homeip.net>> wrote: > > > Any thoughts on this issue? I had assumed that putting swap in the > RAID and having one partition (say /dev/md2) as the swap partition was > the way to go but some netizens argue that this is a performance > problem and that if one drive goes bad it'll still boot ok even though > one of the swap partitions is dead. > > > I'm more interested in the machine staying up (as opposed to just > booting up) if one of the swap drives dies, so I put swap on a RAID 1 > partition. My server is lightly loaded, and I may not be able to get to > it fix it for several days at a time, so staying up is most important to > me than absolute maximum swap performance. That was my feeling as well - I am going to try to put it under RAID - I guess if it seems so detrimental to performance I can also revert. > Also - I'm in the process of copying the partitions from my primary > drive to a new drive and when I run cfdisk, /dev/sda1 is shown as > "Dell Utility" - is this something I should try to mirror? > > > I believe that's the partiton that Dell keeps various diagnostic > utilities on. If you wanted to copy it to the new disk, you could, but > it won't be getting mounted under linux. Nothing to you need to try to > RAID. Thanks, Josh