From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: RFC swap over raid1 Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:59:16 +0800 Message-ID: <51FB1274.3000302@fnarfbargle.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Roberto Spadim Cc: Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 02/08/13 06:11, Roberto Spadim wrote: > hi guys, should i use raid1 with swap partitions? why? > what's the advantages and disvantages? In parallel to Doug's comments. A few years ago, I spent literally *days* trying to figure out why random processes were dying on one of my servers. It turned out there was a bad block in the swap partition (this was pre-SMART). Ever since then, if I've used swap on a machine that was important enough, I used RAID-1.