From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 05:24:12 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 521F0DA7 for ; Wed, 7 May 2014 05:24:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x234.google.com (mail-lb0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA57B2A8 for ; Wed, 7 May 2014 05:24:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f180.google.com with SMTP id p9so594712lbv.39 for ; Tue, 06 May 2014 22:24:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BwyZX5+6iyJZdMIinZAhXBM/PlfnbIZYFqfZxX2sF0o=; b=YYJewfcmJXtxQ4ZbY91O4e1g+CAGjyOuHRN4YVGUAQhZRyEyfJ5KD/EjsRI5nU4KjJ 1/PZev1boVKLLWuh8jtG1i1KB+bnqBUay+XTTz515Z9Ym0c29zxleip4qWVkNUqRLFPY K4rDj/x3HC26PCrXfL/9zHwz2xa+0LkP985q+55C2dP/UKn43VvDoXHeJrA4viWuLe8F 5+Wf6ZIbmUCsljv7SII5W1PYWGI8pCxQn4bV0s84CgAph4wu7l74CNjYgDhJB6h+LTEr 6my1vQhsK1uk3ar//UsTVMnMLPs2X6OjtKUbOyFa0vCpS1paydNhSxUzHwXDLgEIaVny EFIw== X-Received: by 10.112.164.148 with SMTP id yq20mr37911275lbb.22.1399440249550; Tue, 06 May 2014 22:24:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lazlar.no-ip.biz (109.58.144.242.bredband.tre.se. [109.58.144.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id jh4sm15939690lbb.26.2014.05.06.22.24.07 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 06 May 2014 22:24:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5369C376.7000307@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 07:24:06 +0200 From: Rolf Nielsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap on ZFS References: <53697D8B.2060906@gmail.com> <5369B4A1.40506@gmail.com> <5369B8A3.7020403@my.hennepintech.edu> In-Reply-To: <5369B8A3.7020403@my.hennepintech.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 05:24:12 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-05-07 06:37, Andrew Berg wrote: > 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. Unfortunately she lives 450 kilometres away. > > 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. What would be the point of COW, snapshots and clones of swap? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTacN2AAoJEB1OKfQ0M8TgoXYP/R3l4S03mqpb3yqbIYMeHxio vT6xZOUNDSOxRNg2SLgRT85r8xEreFUgP0/kie89YTF9HtpuoQETHzhrTvLQYn+l Piklx4njlOZJ6q7GBWgUSvOZi/XpItzu6h32NHFMQ7Sk543bXyaFQafIHN9M22Oc YHiwA80xYNfsqjR8bOKQVymXPN4aZfdFtwoqSe6CGa20Gk1/Gio2vEykM3O3Tsjy Sp9YVPA4pwfKPr5MeNgbqJ1n/ms9xZchRyYLLbu6sWh/qHUVRSwOIZ/tG8sUcqVM kIeWKnUbMF9vJRwgJ7kra+TiODyqn46Th9Medb+bv9yJ+30z6guCU+nZo0dx1kbz vL/fEW/AVBZcBANLqq9I3xRkzNazszFLequVpxtFEzADzwnZX8A9Pre/Kd/OY18P jurS+h33CgPTSM0PNsjKj/9mb2TNqkt2ezJN6HMHQJv3JSDkp4XGWhglQZQjQbEP 0dQfBKKDTsf/jFgbbHxREtH20G5RUQCJBgZ2PB4gmS8Y1gxmHH/yCr3z8ogSkt+P BUYKhU6944Jvu8Be47OdlDqyaXeKTllefVpl0u9OYJstueSVzA8yQgiV3kWlvfDA 1Nzj+1wnuUraMBb6osylboPrP8YHqgijTA0oRKOXHfbppFilgIBdrgERlsU8Mk/m R3RCTYE/+A30aDroB4bI =bnVN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----