Re: [zfs-discuss] swap across multiple pools

2010-03-03 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 03/03/10 05:19, Matt Keenan wrote: In a multipool environment, would be make sense to add swap to a pool outside or the root pool, either as the sole swap dataset to be used or as extra swap ? Yes. I do it routinely, primarily to preserve space on boot disks on large-memory systems. swap

Re: [zfs-discuss] swap across multiple pools

2010-03-03 Thread Casper . Dik
>The default install for OpenSolaris creates a single root pool, and creates a >swap and dump dataset within this pool. > >In a mutipool environment, would be make sense to add swap to a pool outside >or >the root pool, either as the sole swap dataset to be used or as extra swap ? > >Would this

Re: [zfs-discuss] swap across multiple pools

2010-03-03 Thread James C. McPherson
On 3/03/10 11:19 PM, Matt Keenan wrote: The default install for OpenSolaris creates a single root pool, and creates a swap and dump dataset within this pool. In a mutipool environment, would be make sense to add swap to a pool outside or the root pool, either as the sole swap dataset to be used