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Date:      Thu, 2 Feb 2023 10:21:06 -0600
From:      Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Swap, ZFS & ARC
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On 2/2/23 09:45, jbo@insane.engineer wrote:
>> I prefer not doing this. That is, all my systems have swap partition outside of ZFS pool.
> This isn't really achievable on your average "single disk" desktop systems, right?
> Assuming I'm not missing something (which is why I came here to ask), a "regular" or "default" installation through the FreeBSD installer would setup a swap partition within the zpool, right?
> 

Yes, it is.  You can install to a UFS partition + swap, leaving most of 
the disk unused.  After install, create the ZFS pool on the free space.

I use this strategy for mission-critical servers, since I've run into 
occasional boot problems using root on ZFS.

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