On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Tamer Embaby <t...@tsemba.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a Solaris 10 U5 server with 3 partitions:
>
> 1- UFS for /
> 2- swap for swap space
> 3- the rest is used as ZFS pool (/zfs_pool)
>
> Now I need to add more more swap space using "swap -a <file>"
> and I don't have enough space on /, can create this file on
> the ZFS pool and then add it to the swap space?
>
> For instance:
>
> # mkfile 4g /zfs_pool/some_zfs_fs/swap_002
> # swap -a /zfs_pool/some_zfs_fs/swap_002
>
> Is this supported?  Will it work?
>
> Zpool verison: 4
> ZFS version: N/A
>
> Thanks,
> Tamer
>

You want to rather do the following:

zpool create -V 4G zfs_pool/swapspace1
swap -a /dev/zvol/dsk/zfs_pool/swapspace1



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