Re: Swap on raid

[Michael]

On Sun, 9 May 1999, Dietmar Stein wrote:

> 
> A question in between: what sense does it make to have the swap onto
> raid?
> 
If the swap partition becomes inaccessible, the machine crashes. that 
means if a disk goes down with a swap partition on it, you are dead.

If the partition is on "raid" and a disk fails, your system will continue 
to operate.