From: Mogens Kjaer <mk@crc.dk>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap initialised as an md?
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:55:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455468CD.2050305@crc.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061110102955.ljws9mgxf4o4kgw8@my.pengus.net>
David wrote:
...
> My aim was to have the two swap partitions both mounted, no RAID (as I
> didn't see any benefit to that, but if I'm wrong then I'd appreciate
> being told!).
If one of your disks fails, and you have pages in the swapfile
on the failing disk, your machine will crash when the pages are
needed again.
Mogens
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-10 11:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-10 10:29 Swap initialised as an md? David
2006-11-10 11:55 ` Mogens Kjaer [this message]
2006-11-12 14:03 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-03-23 14:56 ` Grow a RAID-6 ? Gordon Henderson
2007-03-23 15:31 ` Mattias Wadenstein
2007-03-23 16:34 ` Gordon Henderson
2007-03-24 2:20 ` Daniel Korstad
2007-03-23 20:22 ` Swap initialised as an md? Bill Davidsen
2007-03-23 20:35 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-03-26 3:45 ` Bill Davidsen
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