On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 08:32:13PM +0100, Johan Ekenberg wrote:
> According to Mr. Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], swapping on RAID is not
> safe. This is an excerpt of our discussion on the list just recently, I'm
> the one starting, commenting on a regular swap setup with several non-RAID
> swap partitions:
>
[snip]
> As I see it, either the HOWTO is wrong, Mr Berra is wrong, or I'm not really
> understanding what the HOWTO is saying. In the first case it would be good
> to correct/expand the HOWTO, in the other cases I would be very happy for a
> clarification from Mr. Ostergaard or any other authority on RAID. I'm
> currently using a swapfile on a RAID-5 device since I assumed this would
> offer the best protection from a disk crash.
The HOWTO is wrong. It's a long story, but swap on RAID has historically been
anything between ``safe'', ``unsafe'', ``somewhat safe'', ``it works for me - safe'',
``my machine blew up - safe''.
I'll try to keep the advise in the HOWTO updated to the current safeness-state
of the code ;)
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