Timeline for Silent disk errors and reliability of Linux swap
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| Feb 4, 2019 at 21:49 | comment | added | sourcejedi | If you have RAID you do ideally run your swap on top of the RAID. Otherwise, you will crash swapped programs when your swap dies. One of the uses of RAID is to survive a disk failure, hot-swap a new disk and keep running without rebooting. | |
| Feb 4, 2019 at 20:27 | history | edited | Warren Young | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
pointing at one of the other answers, which shows why you can't just put your swap atop ZFS or btrfs
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| Feb 4, 2019 at 20:10 | history | edited | Warren Young | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
assorted improvements
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://unix.stackexchange.com/ with https://unix.stackexchange.com/
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| Jun 25, 2016 at 22:58 | vote | accept | James Johnston | ||
| Jun 21, 2016 at 19:39 | history | edited | Warren Young | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
moved my erstwhile comments into the answer; added disused swap para; added uptime paras
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| Apr 16, 2016 at 22:35 | history | answered | Warren Young | CC BY-SA 3.0 |