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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Stringer wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:27:06 James Knott wrote:
> > Matthew Stringer wrote:
>
> > > I don't normally SoftRAID the swap partitions as it would be faster just
> > > to have multiple ones instead (you're not limited to one).
> > Given one of the goals of RAID is to keep the system running when a
> > drive fails,  what happens when a drive containing swap croaks?
>
>
> Your available swap space would be reduced, doesn't cause the system to fail.

All the pages that are swapped out can no longer be
swapped back in.... this can cause a kernel panic.


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