Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 23:37:55 -0500 From: Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Swap on ZFS Message-ID: <5369B8A3.7020403@my.hennepintech.edu> In-Reply-To: <5369B4A1.40506@gmail.com> References: <CAHAXwYA9NBsYTpUGCZ_5f%2B_qDuvS%2BbN9vE4GAZhpRhWVWCwi7g@mail.gmail.com> <53697D8B.2060906@gmail.com> <C1DCD8EEE8523B91197B6D82@[192.168.1.50]> <5369B4A1.40506@gmail.com>
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On 2014.05.06 23:20, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > If I want to talk to my mother, I call my mother and talk to her. I > don't call my sister and have her call my mother and relay everything. > And for the same reason, I don't see why I should put a filesystem or > swap on a volume on a filesystem. By that logic, you should talk to her in person and not relay your voice over the phone. zvols are far more flexible than partitions and have the added benefit of COW (cheap snapshots and clones anyone?) and checksums underneath. Instantly getting more space in your zpool by cutting down unneeded swap would be quite nice.
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