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Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage



Bzzzz <lazyvirus@gmx.com> writes:

> On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 23:09:58 +0200
> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>
>>  Does swapping to partitions use
>> checksumming for data integrity? 
>
> Not that I know of (but I always make a looong destructive test
> before use, either on regular partitions and swaps).

Have you actually tested (with hot-pluggable disks) what happens when
one of the partitions the system is swapping to suddenly becomes
unavailable or difficult to access and what happens when the data (on
one of the swap-partitions) becomes corrupted?


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