[plug] Changed the subject line to keep Bret happy - Fnarfle Rhubarb Tart

[Brad Campbell]

Brad Campbell wrote:
>>> Why not? You go to the trouble of mirroring all the data, but if
>>> you lose a disk with some allocated swap space on it the machine
>>> *will* die a horrid death.
>>
>>
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>> And reboot 120 seconds later, being only able to access half the
>> swap space and lose the LVm scratch space...  Not much of an issue.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, No.
> It may just hang or corrupt user space processes. If it does panic and 
> reboot, it will come back up with the full compliment of swap and the 
> process will repeat itself. The kernel does not mark swap partitions to 
> not be used if they develop bad sectors, it just blindly stumbles on 
> hoping to regain its memory.

Ok, after a re-read I see I'm not being clear here. I'm not talking about a complete disk failure 
here, but bad sectors in the swap area.

Brad