> >To survive the death of a disk on which swap resides. > > > >> it should be possible. > > > >Yes, but it isn't because AFAIK the 2.2 swap code bypasses too many > >layers and thus doesn't work when a member of the the mirror/stripe > >set fails. > > And how about swap in file?
Same problem. Swap in a file is implemented (AFAIK) as the swap code asking the file system at swapon for the block list; from then on there is no difference between swapping to a file and swapping to a device. -Hein
