Re: [SLUG] Is RAID worth doing?

From: Logan Tygart (thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us)
Date: Sun Jul 16 2006 - 14:52:22 EDT


On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 13:36 -0400, Jason Boxman wrote:
> On Sunday 16 July 2006 12:01, Ken Elliott wrote:
> <snip>
<snip>
> > My goal is not to crash the server, in the event of a HDD failure. I don't
> > mind a scheduled shutdown to replace a drive and rebuild the system. How
> > do you avoid crashing the system if your swap partition fails?
>
> I don't know that you can. Fortunately you can mirror swap.

In the ultimate, worse case scenario, you could always jam in and mount
a separate hdd, use an external drive or an already extant partition and
follow the advice already provided by fellow Slugger, Matt Moen:
http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/05/03/02/2250257.shtml?tid=129&tid=42

The Logan

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