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Date:      Sat, 4 Jan 2025 08:27:06 -0800
From:      Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com>
To:        "Peter 'PMc' Much" <pmc@citylink.dinoex.sub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: curious crashes when under memory pressure
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On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 7:01=E2=80=AFAM Peter 'PMc' Much
<pmc@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> wrote:
>> I'm swapping to a zfs mirror
>
> Well, You shouldn't do that.

Why not? Swapping to a *file* on zfs has obvious issues, but swapping
to a mirrored swap partition seems like it should be entirely safe. A
bit slow (double writes) but I spent $ on RAM rather than M.2 drives
on the theory that I can add those later as needed.

Chris



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