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List:       linux-raid
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Installing Linux directly onto RAID6 Array...........
From:       Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm ! pp ! se>
Date:       2015-05-27 4:59:17
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1505270657080.9487 () uplift ! swm ! pp ! se
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On Tue, 26 May 2015, Wols Lists wrote:

> And you're wasting a lot of disk space. What's important to you (that a 
> live swap disk shouldn't fail) is not important to me and doesn't seem 
> to be important to Another Sillyname.

I am not so sure. He seems to want "maximum resiliance", or at least 
that's what he's saying.

> I don't know why Another Sillyname wants to chain his swap partitions, 
> but it's his choice. Maybe like me, his system gets rebooted a couple of 
> times a day, and failure to start is a far more real risk than failure 
> in use. He's running Fedora - that seems likely then ...

Yes, it's his choice, but he should also make this choice understanding 
what he's doing, so it's an informed and corrent choice. When I read his 
postings, I am not so sure this is the case.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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