Swap in RAID1?

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Yes, of course it will crash, unless by some miracle nothing was being
stored in that swap partition and it is never used.  Then there's the
other philosophy: Stick so much RAM in the box that you don't need swap :)

Michael Hipp wrote:
| A. Khattri wrote:
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|> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
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|>
|>> 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
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