Hi Robert, you are quite welcome !
Thank you very much for your comments. Jan Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello jan, > > Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 11:09:54 AM, you wrote: > > jd> Hi all, > > jd> Based on the further comments I received, following > jd> approach would be taken as far as calculating default > jd> size of swap and dump devices on ZFS volumes in Caiman > jd> installer is concerned. > > jd> [1] Following formula would be used for calculating > jd> swap and dump sizes: > > jd> size_of_swap = MAX(512 MiB, MIN(physical_memory/2, 32 GiB)) > jd> size_of_dump = MAX(256 MiB, MIN(physical_memory/4, 16 GiB)) > > jd> User can reconfigure this after installation is done on live > jd> system by "zfs set" command. > > jd> [2] dump and swap devices will be considered optional > > jd> dump and swap devices will be considered optional during > jd> fresh installation and will be created only if there is > jd> appropriate space available on disk provided. > > jd> Minimum disk space required will not take into account > jd> dump and swap, thus allowing user to install on small disks. > jd> This will need to be documented (e.g. as part of release notes), > jd> so that user is aware of such behavior. > > jd> Recommended disk size (which now covers one full upgrade plus > jd> 2GiB space for additional software) will take into account dump > jd> and swap. > > jd> Dump and swap devices will be then created if user dedicates > jd> at least recommended disk space for installation. > > jd> Thank you very much all for this valuable input. > jd> Jan > > > I like your approach and I like even more that you've listened to > community - thank you. > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
