Re: Newbie: SuSE Sparc64 and Software RAID on Ultra 5

Andrew is absolutely correct.  The benefit of a Raid1 partition for swap
partition would be negligible (waste of hard drive space).

I'm also assuming that you are using Linux software RAID.

If you had a *hardware* RAID controller, you'd be able to run any RAID
configuration for any drive or partition you'd like because the OS would
only see a single drive/partition (the hardware would "hide" the actual
physical layout of the RAID partitions)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew hooper" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 11:39 AM
Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Newbie: SuSE Sparc64 and Software RAID on Ultra 5


> Hi
>
> I can briefly explain why you cant mirror the /boot and swap partitions.
> swap if for swapping memory onto hard disk just like the page file in
> windows. So mirroring this partition wouldn't really achieve much as the
> contents are temporary and disposable.
> The /boot partition hold the files to boot Linux, as Linux is not running
> when it is first accessed then mirroring it with raid 1 one is not
possible.
> However it believe that it is possible to boot of a hardware RAID5
partition
> depending upon your hardware.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Andrew Hooper
> www.andrew.hooper.dsl.pipex.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam M. Johnson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 09 April 2003 13:33
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [suse-sparc] Newbie: SuSE Sparc64 and Software RAID on Ultra 5
>
>
> I am new to Linux (and any flavor of unix in general.) I am trying to set
up
> software RAID 1 with all my partitions. I am able to do this via YaST2,
but
> I cannot set up mirroring for the /boot or swap partitions. I get a
message
> that says "Error: you cannot use the mount points /boot and swap for
RAID."
> Is there a step-by-step or FAQ available for mirroring the /boot and swap
> partitions? It seems rather daft to not allow this at all... Any help
would
> be appreciated!
>
> Thanks...
> Adam
>
>
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