Questions re swap-on-zfs

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Beeblebrox <zaphod at berentweb.com> wrote:

> @  Zaphod Beeblebrox-2
> >> I have partition for swap and a partition for ZFS on each drive.  This
> >> has the additional bonus of
> making swap effectively faster on a 2 drive system (2 swap partitions).
>
> That's what I have, with the difference that one of the swaps is on the ZFS
> pool. So I have 2 swaps as well, but want to minimise usage of swap-on-SSD
> so as to prevent SSD fatigue for the swap area.
>

Well... to be fair, swap on ZFS will deliver you twice the read speed, but
only 1x the write speed of the comparable swap on two drives.  That said,
TRIM support for SWAP would be spiffy!


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You don't appear to have the blessings of Google to back your claim, so who
would believe you?