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Why don't you stripe raid the swap partitions?

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 01:14, Wyatt Draggoo wrote:
> Just thought I'd report in that running jfs over RAID 1 (mirrored) drives
> is possible.  Took a few steps to get there from the SMGL ISO:
> 
> First, I have two identical disks, partitioned exactly the same.  I
> actually break a lot more out, but to simplify things, let's go for:
> 
> hd[ab]1  32MB   (/boot)
> hd[ab]2  512MB  (swap)
> hd[ab]3  8.5BG  (/)
<snip most of very interesting content>
> That's it!  Not too bad, eh?  The final mounts on my system are:
> 
> /dev/hda1   /boot
> /dev/hda2   swap
> /dev/hdb2   swap
> /dev/md3    /
> /dev/md5    /var
> /dev/md6    /usr
> /dev/md7    /export
> 
> I like to name the md devices the same as their partitions were.  md4 was
> skipped because hd[ab]4 are my extended partition on the drives.
> 
> For more information on RAID devices, look at the Software-RAID-HOWTO at:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO
> 
> Wyatt
> 
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> Wyatt Draggoo
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