From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 06:00:38 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 709C13AE for ; Wed, 7 May 2014 06:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from na01-by2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-by2on0053.outbound.protection.outlook.com [207.46.100.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mail.protection.outlook.com", Issuer "MSIT Machine Auth CA 2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29AA26E7 for ; Wed, 7 May 2014 06:00:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2601:2:4780:2fd:7047:5608:c5d5:cbe9] (10.255.124.4) by BLUPR03MB018.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (10.255.208.40) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.944.11; Wed, 7 May 2014 05:27:18 +0000 Message-ID: <5369C434.1090409@my.hennepintech.edu> Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 00:27:16 -0500 From: Andrew Berg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subject: Re: Swap on ZFS References: <53697D8B.2060906@gmail.com> <5369B4A1.40506@gmail.com> <5369B8A3.7020403@my.hennepintech.edu> <5369C376.7000307@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5369C376.7000307@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.255.124.4] X-ClientProxiedBy: BLUPR03CA008.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (10.255.124.25) To BLUPR03MB018.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (10.255.208.40) X-Forefront-PRVS: 0204F0BDE2 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: SFV:NSPM; SFS:(10009001)(6009001)(428001)(199002)(189002)(24454002)(80316001)(83322001)(79102001)(83506001)(4396001)(80022001)(46102001)(47776003)(20776003)(42186004)(76482001)(50986999)(101416001)(64706001)(65816999)(54356999)(76176999)(81542001)(81342001)(33656001)(558084003)(74662001)(21056001)(31966008)(92566001)(86362001)(75432001)(87976001)(83072002)(99396002)(74502001)(77982001)(23676002)(50466002)(92726001)(85852003); DIR:OUT; SFP:1101; SCL:1; SRVR:BLUPR03MB018; H:[IPv6:2601:2:4780:2fd:7047:5608:c5d5:cbe9]; FPR:; MLV:sfv; PTR:InfoNoRecords; A:0; MX:1; LANG:en; Received-SPF: None (: my.HennepinTech.edu does not designate permitted sender hosts) Authentication-Results: spf=none (sender IP is ) smtp.mailfrom=aberg010@my.HennepinTech.edu; X-OriginatorOrg: my.hennepintech.edu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 06:00:38 -0000 On 2014.05.07 00:24, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > What would be the point of COW, snapshots and clones of swap? None, but the flexibility wrt to size is what people want. Start big, track usage, and resize as desired.