Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:24:10 -0500 From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bsdinstall, zfs booting, gpt partition order suitable for volume expansion Message-ID: <52B06C9A.3050306@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <52B065B4.2070006@yandex.ru> References: <20131210175323.GB1728@egr.msu.edu> <52B065B4.2070006@yandex.ru>
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On 12/17/2013 09:54, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > On 10.12.2013 21:53, Adam McDougall wrote: >> I was wondering if either the default gpt partition order could become >> p1=boot, p2=swap, p3=zpool, or if the installer could be enhanced at >> some point to allow the user to select the order. It seems like it would > > Hi, > > I think the following scheme is more expansible: > p1=boot, p2=zpool, p3=swap > > You always can remove swap partition and change the size of zpool, then > add swap partition. Also, you can expand swap partition when the amount > of memory will be increased. > Expanding swap as you described it is more work though, and it is easy to add a second swap partition if more swap is required. If p2 and p4 were swap, you could still even delete p4 and expand the zpool, and possibly recreate a new p4 for swap. I suspect it will be more common that people will want to expand their zpool rather than swap, so if that is true, p2=swap and p3=zpool will require the least effort to repartition.
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