Re: Swap initialised as an md?

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David wrote:
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My aim was to have the two swap partitions both mounted, no RAID (as I didn't see any benefit to that, but if I'm wrong then I'd appreciate being told!).

If one of your disks fails, and you have pages in the swapfile
on the failing disk, your machine will crash when the pages are
needed again.

Mogens

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