Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:34:27 +0200 From: Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> To: pjd@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/120228: [zfs] [patch] Split ZFS volume startup / ease ZFS swap volumes management Message-ID: <78cb3d3f0909110334g6757f08fh57a0ab97c02b2d9a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200909091831.n89IVOS9065418@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200909091831.n89IVOS9065418@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Hi, On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:31 PM, <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote: > Synopsis: [zfs] [patch] Split ZFS volume startup / ease ZFS swap volumes = management > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: pjd > State-Changed-When: =C5=9Bro 9 wrz 2009 18:14:21 UTC > State-Changed-Why: > Thank you for your patch, but I already committed something along those l= ine. We're probably speaking of SVN changeset 195938 ? > rc.d/zfs script was broken and there is now also rc.d/zvol script. It was > created so ZVOL-based file systems can be mounted from /etc/fstab. > Using ZVOL property to setup swap was intended - ZFS file systems are als= o not > mounted from /etc/fstab. All in all using ZVOL for swap is unreliable any= way. While I do understand the "unreliable" part I still fail to understand why do we need to complicate matters with ZFS user property signatures to mount ZFS swap volumes instead of the traditional /etc/fstab way -- is there a concrete reason for this (besides said reliability) ? Thanks, Adrian Penisoara EnterpriseBSD
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