On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Brad Campbell wrote: > Picture lpd gets swapped out on a friday night. Over the weekend it is not used and the drive > develops a bad sector in the middle of the file. Monday morning I want to print and the system tries > to page lpd back in again. *boom*. admin issue ... user related services like printers should NOT be on critical servers and take down what everybody will notice due to unrelated printer problems swap ... swap partitions is by default checked for bad blocks during formatting as swap ... - it is highly unlikely that you'd get a bad sector in swap space - any normal bad things happening to user area of the disks will also happen to swap space - but its unlikely that swap will have bad blocks, while its more likely that users did nto do a badblock check during formatting across the 100GB or 300GB disks ... and even more time twiddling your thumbs on raid'd disks c ya alvin > I have not looked at the system swap algorithms, but I doubt they include automatic bad block > management and read after write verification. I'm making big assumptions here, but I'm assuming they > rely on a bad block table created by mkswap and an otherwise clean, functioning swap area. > > Regards, > Brad > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
