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

[Andy Poling]

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?

If not, that could be the temporary solution to the problem... though I
suppose that swap files might be frowned upon by purists.  :-)

-Andy