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Andy Ball wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At some point in the future, I hope to buy a mainboard with a
> supported hardware RAID controller.  In the mean time, to get started
> I'm thinking of adding a (matched) pair of hard disk drives to an
> existing host, putting (unmirrored) /, swap and /usr partitions on the
> disks and then using using something like raidframe to make a mirror
> from two large partitions (one on each drive) that are the same size.
> Is it sensible to put / and /usr on one disk and swap on the other?
> Should I consider a third disk to keep swap away from the mirror?
> Hints, observations and suggestions are invited.
>
> Thanks,
>   - Andy Ball
>  =20

I generally take the easy way out, and mirror the entire drive, then
partition raid0.  Then again, I'm lazy.

OTOH, if you want the machine to be able to keep running in the event of
a disk failure, you _should_ mirror swap.

+j



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