FreeBSD 9.1 and swap on zfs

Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kworr at gmail.com
Tue Apr 9 15:05:16 UTC 2013


09.04.2013 15:15, Kai Gallasch:
>> My suggestion is:
>>
>> if you want stability and don't have specific disk layout problems create a separate swap.
>
>
> I think I'll repartition and swap to a gmirror device then.
> This also has the advantage of being able to write kernel dumps to the swap (not possible with a ZVOL bases swap AFAIK)

Be sure to use -b prefer for that as when dump is written it goes to the 
first component. Man page is a bit outdated as we currently miss 
/etc/rc.early.

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