Swap in RAID1?

[Michael Hipp]

A. Khattri wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've been hold that it'll crash anyway if you put swap in RAID and a drive
>>fails. But won't it crash if you have two swaps and one goes away?
> 
> 
> I always keep them outside of an RAID scheme - I can always switch off a
> swap partition on a bad drive.

So let's say I have 2 swap partitions (one on each drive) and both are in use 
to some extent. One of them dies and the system can't retrieve whatever it had 
swapped out to it. Isn't it going to crash?

(I'm wanting to learn here and don't know the right answer. But I have a 
server that I need to get set up *right*.)

Thanks,
Michael