Hello,

   JR> OTOH, if you want the machine to be able to keep
     > running in the event of a disk failure, you _should_
     > mirror swap.

  GAW> If you want that machine to keep running then
     > s/should/MUST/

Okay, I'm convinced.  I had been thinking more about having
redundant copies of the data on the big partition, but being
able to keep the machine running when a drive fails would be
useful if only to perform a clean shutdown, since the drives
won't be hot-swap.

Thanks for the advice,
  - Andy Ball