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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
Feb 4, 2019 at 20:10 history edited Warren Young CC BY-SA 4.0
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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
Apr 16, 2016 at 22:35 history answered Warren Young CC BY-SA 3.0