Hi Richard, on Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:08:26PM -0400, you wrote: > Note that in such a situation if either disk fails you're likely to end up > with a panic when your swap device isn't accessible. If uptime is a > concern mirrored swap is better (but slower). > > Of course, if you're running on consumer hardware chances are that computer > is going to fail if a drive hangs up in any case - most motherboards don't > handle drive failures gracefully, but server-class hardware usually > isolates drives so that a drive failure doesn't take down the system.
True, that's a risk I figured I could live with. It's actually a server
board but in a regular tower case and w/o hot-swappable drives, and I'm
not controlling my iron lung with it :)
cheers,
Matthias
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