On Monday April 7, Alfred.Isele@fujitsu-siemens.com wrote: > > Hello! > I have a question concerning the use of raid1 (md) > together with swap. I use this /etc/fstab entry: > > /dev/md1 none swap pri=42 0 0 > > Somebody told me swap could be damaged if > one of the mirrored devices used for swap fails and > a spare disk is resynched for it because the resync would > be done using the buffer cache whereas the swapping would > be done by direct disk access. > Do you know if such a problem exists? In 2.2 kernels, yes. In 2.4.0 and later, no. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
