Jan Damborsky wrote:
> Thank you very much all for this valuable input.
> 
> Based on the collected information, I would take
> following approach as far as calculating size of
> swap and dump devices on ZFS volumes in Caiman
> installer is concerned.
> 
> [1] Following formula would be used for calculating
>     swap and dump sizes:
> 
> size_of_swap = size_of_dump = MAX(512 MiB, MIN(physical_memory/2, 32 GiB))
> 
> User can reconfigure this after installation is done on live
> system by "zfs set" command.

If the min space isn't available do NOT abort the install just continue 
without creating swap space, but put a small warning somewhere suitable.
Don't ask the user to confirm this and don't make a big deal about it.

-- 
Darren J Moffat
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