-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "William Blunn" <bill@tao-group.com> writes: > Swap devices only contain volatile data anyway. > I wouldn't mind losing the contents of my swap device. The machine will > probably crash. It's the same as if the machine went down through a > power outage. Not a big problem. Assuming only the swap device failed, I > could just re-boot and run with a bit less swap space. <nod> But we try to minimize the posibility of failure. Thats why many of us have a UPS hooked up. If there is a power failure we can shutdown the system cleanly on our own terms and not the power companies. > If the drive fails, I lose the contents of any filesystems on the same > drive. Much more significant. The fact that the machine went down > because the swap device failed pales into insignificance, because now > all the data has disappeared. No-one can do any work until we have > replaces disk(s), sorted out the filesystems, restored from backups etc. Unless it is mirrored somehow... - -- - -rupa -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6, an Emacs/PGP interface iQEVAwUBPHUdBnHDM4ucEopdAQGzPAf+InTVnZvUXgsMKMFxZqf8WUiFlqBwInY3 96MKgZtjtB2EvnChkVe9uUMksUGeMjarrAO9e1TMpnGzU2wjEcZySID8i+vErEYB ypG7vHT0VHLzZi+NsRlT1X7HKwLizU74TkDGE8/5H5HQN04HId9OgKeRDbi6XyLV Ms5TCfMET3q3lbT3LaYnOGjXZkOfrFsRt3z36CWaDfhOxyauZTYi3ThaCk2vs6jm PPU6PELmboJTIp7vmhv9VKSqwMMBYpgCDp20mmVZEaoRpz6ymWc0SCyyWTCrujQh RaXtolG9u8Aqj0aQvPgtKjpJKbCMspZM8Wtr55KGKmnqF+AVHkl3Tg== =6+ot -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
