From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 3 19:11:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D67B1065676 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 19:11:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [IPv6:2001:470:a80a:1:21f:d0ff:fe22:b8a8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D948FC18 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 19:11:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D4071F1BC for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:11:07 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at honeypot.net Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id SFo-UDhK8ZO9 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:11:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from athena.localnet (athena.daycos.com [IPv6:2001:470:c054:1:221:9bff:fe00:de3f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 60F681F1AF for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:11:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:10:59 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.28-11-generic; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <200906031324.54199.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906031410.59524.kirk@strauser.com> Subject: Re: Swap on ZFS - still a bad idea? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:11:08 -0000 On Wednesday 03 June 2009 01:36:37 pm Wojciech Puchar wrote: > No idea. You may just make separate partition for swapping and it will > work. Good if you have swap "just for sure". Well, the problem is that I wanted to have a "bare-metal" ZFS system without any FreeBSD slices or partitions. > If your system needs swapping under normal operation, using ZFS is really > bad idea as it needs lots of memory - which you are already short of. It was more of the "just in case", with plenty of RAM for normal operation. -- Kirk Strauser