Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:20:50 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/120228: [zfs] [patch] Split ZFS volume startup / ease ZFS swap volumes management Message-ID: <20090911122050.GC1673@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <78cb3d3f0909110334g6757f08fh57a0ab97c02b2d9a@mail.gmail.com> References: <200909091831.n89IVOS9065418@freefall.freebsd.org> <78cb3d3f0909110334g6757f08fh57a0ab97c02b2d9a@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:34:27PM +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:31 PM, <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Synopsis: [zfs] [patch] Split ZFS volume startup / ease ZFS swap volumes management > > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > > State-Changed-By: pjd > > State-Changed-When: śro 9 wrz 2009 18:14:21 UTC > > State-Changed-Why: > > Thank you for your patch, but I already committed something along those line. > > We're probably speaking of SVN changeset 195938 ? Yes. > > rc.d/zfs script was broken and there is now also rc.d/zvol script. It was > > created so ZVOL-based file systems can be mounted from /etc/fstab. > > Using ZVOL property to setup swap was intended - ZFS file systems are also not > > mounted from /etc/fstab. All in all using ZVOL for swap is unreliable anyway. > > While I do understand the "unreliable" part I still fail to understand > why do we need to complicate matters with ZFS user property signatures > to mount ZFS swap volumes instead of the traditional /etc/fstab way -- > is there a concrete reason for this (besides said reliability) ? The idea is to keep things consistent. You can still use /etc/fstab to put swap on ZVOLs, no? You can also set mountpoint property for file system to 'legacy' and then you can mount it from to /etc/fstab too. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFKqkCiForvXbEpPzQRAhHnAJ4gu+GtLT302RLjlGq6/kkJs31FfQCg3Uii Flmnw6i5SPcUi7Fnisv0Jj4= =ONbe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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