Re: RAID1: What happens when one half of a mirror fails?

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Eric Pretorious wrote:
> On Thursday 30 June 2005 12:03 pm, Laurent CARON wrote:
> 
>>is the swap partition on raid?
> 
> 
> No. swap both swap partitions are formatted as standard swap partitions and mounted via /etc/fstab.
> 

That's no good idea. If a disk fails which contains a swap partition to
which data has been swapped the system will crash.
Therefor it is important to use mirrored partitions for swap.

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