On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 05:35:58PM +0200, Michele Bini wrote: > Uhm, you are obviously right: let's say that when I partitioned the > disks I didn't have swap space resiliency at the front of my thoughts.
What's the point of raid1 if the machine crashes and looses current data if a disk fails? That's what most likely will happen when you loose part of swap. > The swap partition on the dead disk actually had some swap in use (48 > blocks, per /proc/swaps) but swapoff seems to be capable to stop using > it or at least it doesn't complain and the dead partition disappears > from /proc/swaps. > > But still no reboot. Do you think it is really messed up (I don't > understand how the process(es) those 48 pages belonged to can survive > without them) and there is no hope of a clean shutdown? There is no way you can shutdown with swap in use that can't be accessed. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]