[OmniOS-discuss] [discuss] to swap or not to swap

Paul B. Henson henson at acm.org
Thu Apr 18 17:50:48 EDT 2013


On 4/18/2013 12:17 PM, Eric Sproul wrote:
> Swap may also be located off the boot pool if desired.  It is the dump
> volume that must be on the boot pool, because it may need to be
> accessed early in the boot process, before non-root pools have been
> imported.

I was actually thinking of having dump on a raw disk. I've got a 100G 
SSD for zil, which is considerably bigger than it needs to be. I was 
going to make one slice (10G? 20G?) the zil, then carve out a another 
slice to be dump, and then leave the rest unpartitioned.



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