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. -- 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
