On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:56:30PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:

I beg to differ on this one. Having spend several weeks tracking down 
random processes dying on a machine that turned out to be a bad sector in 
the swap partition, I have had great results by running swap on a RAID-1. 
If you develop a bad sector in a non-mirrored swap, bad things happen 
indeterminately and can be a royal PITA to chase down. It's just a little 
extra piece of mind.

If you have a  bad block in your swap partition and the device doesn't
report an error about it, no amount of RAID is going to help you
against it.


Erik

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