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Subject: Re: conf/120228: [zfs] [patch] Split ZFS volume startup / ease ZFS 
	swap volumes management
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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