On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Michael wrote:
> Reasons TO USE RAID for swap - if the darn swap partition goes bad,
> the kernel chokes. With a raid swap partition, a bad disk will not
> bring down the system. Guess how I found out!!!
>
> Am I missing something here?? The system in question had 2 swap
> partitions, one got a bad spot on the disk and the whole system went
> south.
Precisely. That's surely the only reason why anyone would want to put
swap onto an md device.
Could someone confirm that a deadlock situation regarding swap on a md
device (raid1 specifically) was resolved since raid0145-19981005-C-2.0.35?
Regards
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