Hello Darren, Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 1:19:53 PM, you wrote:
DJM> 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. DJM> If the min space isn't available do NOT abort the install just continue DJM> without creating swap space, but put a small warning somewhere suitable. DJM> Don't ask the user to confirm this and don't make a big deal about it. Yeah, I've just tried to install snv_91 on a 16GB CF card with ZFS as root file system.. and I couldn't because it wanted almost 40GB of disk space and I couldn't overwrite it. I know it is not Caiman. Such a behavior is irritating. -- Best regards, Robert Milkowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
