Hi,
You can run a system without a swap device. But if you do 'swapoff -a'
_after_ a swap device failure, you are dead (if swap had any virtual
data stored in it.)
'swapoff -a' copies virtual data stored in the swap device to physical
memory before closing the device. This is much different than losing
access to the swap data due to a failure.
<>< Lance.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hm,
>
> I understand the necessary of redundancy; but isn't it the same
> if you do a swapoff -a or swap-disks dies on a system?
> What I have in mind is the thing, that the system should not swap
> at all, so that it is necessary to have as much memory (RAM) as
> possible.
