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 1Q6l6P-0000ey-R8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:50:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1AAC1C04E; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:47:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f181.google.com (mail-iw0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B10391C04E for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:47:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn2 with SMTP id 2so7304036iwn.40 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:47:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wA58vAydN7wuoczG7r5+zlNV9d9x6BOB/Hsw6PSKIUY=; b=p3+FDtcQHsc8STHgpk5Q/OhKEKArmJmke7I8O2L3W2O958xEV3nmhc54OQvia5jdj9 ubUJMHd/SyTQ+BEpWy4uDiSHf9C418rMXE463vQ8avjONdQ2xLAQGXViDHhuL1KauQ+D 3yQqSIrJ5YGM0+vbudUNhPndN/JsRE7l1tVdk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=vG9ELhGVO1QGcEw2NE9gsuGMFiYvkTAoxsGn8ODCQkdLqEvbBewLcf0jalOgywNgIZ 0SP8MeIbY5cVM8dhMwRtC64zUdZlYAKWCfJzB0Phmlj/YpeJeG5+sCpkM6Du/A5BIAde teN4KyLy+7ynvBUz9QNf007ZYlrZFaNRNQC58= 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 Received: by 10.43.54.18 with SMTP id vs18mr1199800icb.313.1301928473256; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.167.74 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 07:47:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 07:47:53 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID on new install From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: James Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5f76f429162256d599a3e42314ff7cbd On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:16 AM, 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. =C2=A0I'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 ? > The kernel does it's own management of swap. If you use swap at all I'd let the kernel manage that itself and not get in the middle with RAID. - Mark