Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:10:59 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap on ZFS - still a bad idea? Message-ID: <200906031410.59524.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906032034560.24071@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <200906031324.54199.kirk@strauser.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906032034560.24071@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Wednesday 03 June 2009 01:36:37 pm Wojciech Puchar wrote: > No idea. You may just make separate partition for swapping and it will > work. Good if you have swap "just for sure". Well, the problem is that I wanted to have a "bare-metal" ZFS system without any FreeBSD slices or partitions. > If your system needs swapping under normal operation, using ZFS is really > bad idea as it needs lots of memory - which you are already short of. It was more of the "just in case", with plenty of RAM for normal operation. -- Kirk Strauser
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