> sorry, but swap-on-raid is not stable.
> raid uses the buffer cache,
> swap does not
> result: when your swap partition is resyncing, due to disk failure or
> unclean shutdown swap gets corruppted.

Is this a fact even when using a swapfile? That's what I do. No swap
partitions, just a large swapfile in /var/swap/ on md0. I have 1Gb of
memory, so I'm not very dependent of swapping, but I was taught that it's a
must to have a swap space anyway. Maybe that's wrong?

/Johan Ekenberg

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