Stupid RAID question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 09:36:17PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> I recently set up a RAID array at work and a while ago at home.  I
> have /boot on non RAID, but apparently it can be on RAID1.  On the
> work server, I used a 2 GB slice of the 1st drive for /boot and used
> the 2 GB slices on the other 3 drives for swap.  I used the rest of
> the drive space for RAID5  I then put LVM on top of the RAID array.

Just remember that if your swap is NOT on raid, then a drive failure
crashes the system and corrupts data.

I don't know why so many people can't understand that basic concept.

raid 0 is NOT something you use for swap.  It is only something to use
for unimportant temporary data that you don't need to keep.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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