jan damborsky wrote: > Hi Lori, > > > Lori Alt wrote: > >> The Caiman team can make their own decision here, but we >> decided to be more hard-nosed about disk space requirements in the >> legacy install. If the pool is too small to accommodate the recommended >> swap and dump zvols, then maybe this system isn't a good candidate for >> a zfs root pool. Basically, we decided that since you almost >> can't buy disks smaller than 60 GB these days, it's not worth much >> effort to facilitate the setup of zfs root pools on disks that are >> smaller >> than that. If you really need to do so, Jumpstart can be used to >> set the dump and swap sizes to whatever you like, at the time >> of initial install. > > I would agree with you as far as internal disks are concerned. > However, since Slim installer also allows to install for example > on USB sticks, which are smaller, the minimum required space might > be the issue.
With ZFS, the actual space used is difficult to predict, so there should be some leeway allowed. For USB sticks, I'm generally using compression and copies=2, both of which radically change the actual space used. It is unlikely that we can install 5 lbs of flour in a 1 lb bag, but may not be impossible. > > Do we need to create two separate volumes for swap and dump or > might be one ZFS volume enough which then would be shared by both > swap and dump ? IMHO, you can make dump optional, with no dump being default. Before Sommerfeld pounces on me (again :-), let me defend myself: the vast majority of people will never get a core dump and if they did, they wouldn't know what to do with it. We will just end up wasting a bunch of space. As Solaris becomes more popular, this problem becomes bigger. OTOH, people who actually care about core dumps can enable them quite easily. WWMSD? -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
