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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Wyatt Draggoo <wyatt AT draggoo.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Success with raidtools and jfs...
  • Date: 13 Jan 2003 01:37:46 -0500

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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