On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 11:56:31AM +0100, Luca Berra wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 01:37:05AM +0100, Johan Ekenberg wrote:
> > Alright, but this approach is still vulnerable to a disk crash. I one of the
> > disks currently used for swapping goes down, the machine goes with it. At
> > least according to Jacobs HOWTO... Maybe it's a question of choosing between
> > swap speed and stability. In my case it's more important that the machine
> > can suffer a disk failure without going down.
>
> 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.
Can you explain this to me? Data on swapspace is irrelevant after a shutdown,
so why this should bother?
Sincerly,
Klaus
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