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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Swap file system Post 302315227 by jlliagre on Tuesday 12th of May 2009 12:43:26 AM
Old 05-12-2009
The system will likely leave the disk failure unnoticed if the swap space isn't used which is the usual case.
Otherwise, I suspect a panic for unrecoverable read errors and possibly something less extreme for write errors.
 

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