Software raid VS hardware raid

[Paul Kraus]

On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Warren Block wrote:

> If you want to use the same drive for booting, it's possible.  Create all three partitions on both drives manually.  Then mirror the freebsd-ufs partition only.  The contents of the freebsd-boot partition don't change often, and swap does not have to be mirrored.

	Note that if you do NOT mirror SWAP, then in the event of a disk failure you will most likely crash when the system tries to swap in some data from the failed drive. If you mirror swap then you do not risk a crash due to missing swap data.

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