On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:55:57PM +0100, Mogens Kjaer wrote:

If one of your disks fails, and you have pages in the swapfile
on the failing disk, your machine will crash when the pages are
needed again.

IMHO the machine will not crash just the application which the page
belongs to will be killed. Of course, if that application happens to be
init or your mission-critical daemon then the effect is not much
different from a crash...

Gabor

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