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Re: new system configuration advice wanted



>> (raid-1 swap is wasteful)
> If it's ever possible that your system might put any page it will
> ever want again out to swap, the above seems quite wrong to me.

Not every system needs RAID levels of reliability.  On almost all of my
own systems, for example, I would be entirely content with panicking if
a disk holding swap were to fail; RAID swap _would_ be wasteful there.

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