Re: Swap on Raid ???

[Michael]

>   On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Marc Mutz wrote:
> 
>     Why does anybody want to use swap-on-RAID with any RAID level
>     than 1? Wouldn't it be much faster if you used multiple swap
>     spaces?
> 

Pretty simple. If your swap space becomes corrupted or you lose the 
disk it resides on, the kernel chokes. Doesn't matter if you have 
several swap partitions or not. If the data required is on the 
missing/bad swap partition your system crashes.

If it resides on raid this cannot happen because of a single disk 
that fails (if raid works correctly).
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