software raid

[Phillip Susi]

Kent Borg wrote:
> Is it?  The purpose of raid is to survive a disk dying.  When is the
> disk going to die?  Possibly when the computer is running, in which
> case having the swap on raid 1 means you don't have to crash.
>
>   

I suppose that is true; if the disk craps out then you would have some 
programs crash without the raid1.  Typically though, disks crap out on 
spin up, not while running, and a crash isn't a big deal as long as your 
data is still intact.