Storage question

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Wed Sep 9 16:07:32 UTC 2015


On 09/09/15 10:42, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:15 AM, William A. Mahaffey III 
> <wam at hiwaay.net <mailto:wam at hiwaay.net>> wrote:
>
>     The online docs all seem to show swap within the zpool as well,
>     does that work OK, performance wise ?
>
>
> I know they don't all say that except for perhaps "don't do it".  
> Having a file backed swap on ZFS(or really any FS) or a ZVOL backed 
> swap is a bad idea doomed from the start.  It'll work just fine as 
> long as there is no memory pressure and will collapse under severe 
> pressure.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Adam


Yeah I caught that right after I hit the 'return' key :-/ ....


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