From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7M8b-0000TI-LV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:22:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E0E61C02D; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 06:21:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.167]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCE81C02D for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 06:21:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.150] (helo=smtp18.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7M7D-0004IS-Dd for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:21:19 +0200 Received: from 5353c7ed.cm-6-4d.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.83.199.237] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp18.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7M7C-0002gq-RM for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:21:18 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C252ED2 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 08:21:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XT7sqDjKFh8p for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 08:21:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0DD9221A2 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 08:21:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID on new install Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:21:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/4.6 beta4 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.6.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <20110406062125.46C252ED2@data.antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Q7M7C-0002gq-RM X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.928, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a49eddddc285d36c177812545fd669f6 On Monday 04 April 2011 14:16:45 James wrote: > Mark Shields gmail.com> writes: > > The last guide recommends using raid0 on some > > partitions; everytime I use LVM2, I use nothing > > but raid1 partitions. I'd rather have the full > > raid1 than partial raid 1 + speed of raid0. > > Well Raid 1 only would be keen. > Even swap as raid 1 ? > > There are actually 2 docs that cross > reference each other. See my post to > Mark's input... > > thx > James On my server, I use RAID-1 for swap as well. Why risk the system crashing because half the swap dissappears suddenly because of a drive failure? There actually is only 1 system that I use regularly with a RAID-0 partition. And that machine is only used for virtual machines I use for testing. If that one dies, worst that happens is I need to recreate the images. Not a big loss for me. -- Joost Roeleveld