From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Mouw Subject: Re: ext3 journal on software raid (was Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:12:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20050105141251.GE13684@harddisk-recovery.com> References: <41DBC7DE.509@wasp.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41DBC7DE.509@wasp.net.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Brad Campbell Cc: Alvin Oga , Andy Smith , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:56:30PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: > I beg to differ on this one. Having spend several weeks tracking down > random processes dying on a machine that turned out to be a bad sector in > the swap partition, I have had great results by running swap on a RAID-1. > If you develop a bad sector in a non-mirrored swap, bad things happen > indeterminately and can be a royal PITA to chase down. It's just a little > extra piece of mind. If you have a bad block in your swap partition and the device doesn't report an error about it, no amount of RAID is going to help you against it. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands