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Date:      Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:20:50 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-rc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: conf/120228: [zfs] [patch] Split ZFS volume startup / ease ZFS swap volumes management
Message-ID:  <20090911122050.GC1673@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <78cb3d3f0909110334g6757f08fh57a0ab97c02b2d9a@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200909091831.n89IVOS9065418@freefall.freebsd.org> <78cb3d3f0909110334g6757f08fh57a0ab97c02b2d9a@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:34:27PM +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:31 PM,  <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Synopsis: [zfs] [patch] Split ZFS volume startup / ease ZFS swap volume=
s 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=
 line.
>=20
> We're probably speaking of SVN changeset 195938 ?

Yes.

> > rc.d/zfs script was broken and there is now also rc.d/zvol script. It w=
as
> > created so ZVOL-based file systems can be mounted from /etc/fstab.
> > Using ZVOL property to setup swap was intended - ZFS file systems are a=
lso not
> > mounted from /etc/fstab. All in all using ZVOL for swap is unreliable a=
nyway.
>=20
> 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) ?

The idea is to keep things consistent. You can still use /etc/fstab to
put swap on ZVOLs, no? You can also set mountpoint property for file
system to 'legacy' and then you can mount it from to /etc/fstab too.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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