Re: software raid drive failed, please provide step bu step to rebuild
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 10:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 17:44 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> This toasted your /swp partition.
> Raid 0 is striping, and a single failure toasts the entire device.
>
> You would have been ahead with a non-raid swap, and had 3 separate
> partitions, one on each device, for swap. Failure of one would not have
> toasted all.
Yes, but losing swap will kill any processes that happened to be
using it. The results of continuing to run with unpredictable
things happening might be worse than crashing immediately.
I never said loss of a swap partition would not have consequences.
I said that by using multiple partitions for swap that losing one would
not totally lose the swap. A reboot with one failed will continue to
use the remaining parts and at least part of the swap will be available.
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