From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 11 11:16:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD6D437B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:16:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6BIGUw00969 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:16:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200107111816.f6BIGUw00969@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: swap with raid array? From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:16:30 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We're about to set up a server with 2G of ram and a 5 disk striped RAID array with a hot standby. I've started wondering about the swap, though: if the array appears as a single disk to the os, wouldn't the swap partition be striped as well? does this make sense? Also, will this survive failover? Theres's also the question of whether or not swap even makes sense with 2G of ram--won't it already be done for if it hits that??? hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message