On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:56:30PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: > I beg to differ on this one. Having spend several weeks tracking down > random processes dying on a machine that turned out to be a bad sector in > the swap partition, I have had great results by running swap on a RAID-1. > If you develop a bad sector in a non-mirrored swap, bad things happen > indeterminately and can be a royal PITA to chase down. It's just a little > extra piece of mind. If you have a bad block in your swap partition and the device doesn't report an error about it, no amount of RAID is going to help you against it. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - 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
