Re: booting, mounting / and software raid

[Hein Roehrig <hein@acm.org>]

> >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.
> 
> And how about swap in file?

Same problem. Swap in a file is implemented (AFAIK) as the swap code 
asking the file system at swapon for the block list; from then on 
there is no difference between swapping to a file and swapping to a 
device.

-Hein