[ILUG] Booting a broken raid array

[Kenn Humborg]

> - partition as follows:
> 
>   - /boot goes onto the compact flash card, set as the booting device
> in the bios
>   - create a slice of swap on each of the disks (say 500MB - 1GB each)
> at the start of the disk
>   - fill the rest of the disc with a software raid partition
>   - repeat for additional disks
>   - build desired raid level MD device on the partitions
>   - put a single LVM volume on top of that (for future expansion)

If I read this right, your swap space is not on mirrored or
raided storage.  So, when one disk fails, the system won't
be able to swap data back in from that disk.  

While this shouldn't cause a kernel crash in Linux (since
the kernel never swaps out its own data), it will crash
any user-land process that needs to swap in from that swap 
space.

Your setup is protecting the data on the disks, but is not
really giving you any higher availability.

Later,
Kenn