From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mogens Kjaer Subject: Re: Swap initialised as an md? Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:55:57 +0100 Message-ID: <455468CD.2050305@crc.dk> References: <20061110102955.ljws9mgxf4o4kgw8@my.pengus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20061110102955.ljws9mgxf4o4kgw8@my.pengus.net> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: mk@crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk