Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:24:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap on ZFS - still a bad idea? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906032123320.24883@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <200906031410.59524.kirk@strauser.com> References: <200906031324.54199.kirk@strauser.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906032034560.24071@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200906031410.59524.kirk@strauser.com>
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> 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. slices are not needed with any fs. partitions - you need at least boot partition. > >> 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. > -- so just don't set up swap at all, or do under ZFS as it's "just in case" not normal operation
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