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Subject: Re: Recommended gmirror solution with swap?
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Gary Palmer wrote:

> Except in the case where a drive holding some swapped out memory goes bad
> and the system panics or crashes as a result.  It might not make as
> much sense for desktops, but if I were (still) building servers I'd
> mirror everything that the system depended on to run.

Well, yes... though the "only" things lost in this case are the
processes using the swap :) But you're right in the general case.