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Re: booting, mounting / and software raid



Jean-Paul Blaquiere <japester@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> Why do you really want to mirror swap?

To survive the death of a disk on which swap resides.

> it should be possible.

Yes, but it isn't because AFAIK the 2.2 swap code bypasses too many
layers and thus doesn't work when a member of the the mirror/stripe
set fails.

-Hein




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