Using an SSD "disk" for /

[Ronald Klop]

On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:39:35 +0100, Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com>  
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Pete French  
> <petefrench at ticketswitch.com> wrote:
>> I boot a server from a Compact Flash drive connected to a CF->SATA
>> adaptor. Its only 4GB, enough to boot, and then all my read/write
>> partititons come from several terrabytes of attached zpool. It
>> works excellently, and was very cheap to setup. Performance is
>> fine as you are almost never writing to the flash drive. The only
>> time I notice the slowdown is when doing an installworld or  
>> installkernel.
>>
>> -pete.
>>
>
> When you set up your disks like this, where do you put your swap?
>
> For my home ZFS server - which has a tank with two raidz pools, each
> with 6 disks in - I partitioned the first 6 disks into 2 partitions, a
> 6 GB chunk at the start, and the remaining data used for zfs. I then
> use 3 of the disks first partition in a gmirror UFS root partition,
> and the other 3 as swap.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom

Why do you need swap if the server is doing file serving only? You will  
have more fun if you add more RAM then when you add more swap.

Ronald.