David Magda wrote: > On Jun 30, 2008, at 19:19, Jeff Bonwick wrote: > >> Dump is mandatory in the sense that losing crash dumps is criminal. >> >> Swap is more complex. It's certainly not mandatory. Not so long ago, >> swap was typically larger than physical memory. > > These two statements kind of imply that dump and swap are two > different slices. They certainly can be, but how often are they?
If they are ZVOLs then they are ALWAYS different. > Quite often swap and dump are the same device, at least in the > installs that I've worked with, and I think the default for Solaris > is that if dump is not explicitly specified it defaults to swap, yes? Correct. > Is there any reason why they should be separate? You might want dump but not swap. They maybe connected via completely different types of storage interconnect. For dump ideally you want the simplest possible route to the disk. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
