RE: [SLUG] Is RAID worth doing?

From: Ken Elliott (kelliott11@cfl.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jul 16 2006 - 17:10:59 EDT


KE >> That doesn't do what I want.

LT >> Actually, it does. Read closer.

Then we don't understand each other. I re-read it and I am unable to
understand how your suggestion has anything to do with hard drive fault
tolerance. It looks like this is a solution to _extend_ the swap space.
How does this have anything to do with mirroring drives, including the swap
partition?

Ken Elliott

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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Logan Tygart
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 3:47 PM
To: SLUG
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Is RAID worth doing?

On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 15:41 -0400, Ken Elliott wrote:
> >> In the ultimate, worse case scenario, you could always jam in and
> >> mount
> a separate hdd, use an external drive or an already extant partition
> and follow the advice already provided by fellow Slugger, Matt Moen:
>
> That doesn't do what I want.

Actually, it does. Read closer.

The Logan

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