On 2/14/08, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:

Neil wrote:

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You want to use a softRaid1 array for swapping? Why?

We do the same - it's called redundancy. I know why Raid 1 may be usefull

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The data on swapspace is meant to be temporarily, so it shouldn't matter wether it's gone if a hdd crashes.

Oh, it does matter. What do you think happens when a process that's been swapped out, suddenly needs to run ? The kernel will try to swap it back in, but cannot because the harddisk is dead. I'm not sure if linux does much paging, but a page fault that cannot be resolved by paging in will cause trouble, I guarantee it. Okay, I stand corrected. That would certainly cause a load of trouble

(I mailed it to the ontopic mailing list again, cause I think this belongs there) Neil -- There are two kinds of people: 1. People who start their arrays with 1. 1. People who start their arrays with 0. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org