Re: Best way to set up swap for high availability?

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 16:11:14 -0500 (EST), Andy Poling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:53:22PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>> Sorry, but since then we did find a fault.  Raid resync goes through the
>> buffer cache.  Swap bypasses the buffer cache.  There is no coherency
>> between the two activities.  It is possible for raid1 and raid5
>> background resync to corrupt swap writes to the partition during
>> reconstruction.

> Stephen, does this also hold true if one is swapping to files that happen to
> be located on a softare raid partition?

Yes, 'fraid so.

--Stephen