Bzzzz <lazyvi...@gmx.com> writes: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:53:50 +0200 > lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > >> Have you actually tested (with hot-pluggable disks) what happens when >> one of the partitions the system is swapping to suddenly becomes >> unavailable or difficult to access and what happens when the data (on >> one of the swap-partitions) becomes corrupted? > > Not recently, I had a swap disk failure 2 times, 15 years ago, > I found the machine completely stucked, ~12-13 years ago, > processes were killed and the machine was still running.
Huh? It was stuck but running? How do you suppose that, when a disk to which the system has swapped out the contents of emacs' buffers you've been working on fails, the system shall obtain this data so that you can save your changes before shutting down the system to replace the failed disk? (And don't say "use hot-pluggable disks".) -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/871tr6nzk0....@yun.yagibdah.de
