[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> Just make sure you use dumpadm to point to valid dump device and
> this setup should work fine. Please let us know if it doesn't.
> 
> The ZFS strategy behind automatically creating separate swap and
> dump devices including the following:
> 
> o Eliminates the need to create separate slices
> o Enables underlying ZFS architecture for swap and dump devices
> o Enables you to set characteristics like compression on swap
> and dump devices, and eventually, encryption
Hi
also makes resizing easy to do as well.
ie
zfs set volsize=8G lupool/dump


Enda
> 
> Cindy
> 
> Alan Burlison wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> ZFS doesn't swap to a slice in build 92. In this build, a ZFS root
>>> environment requires separate ZFS volumes for swap and dump devices.
>>>
>>> The ZFS boot/install project and information trail starts here:
>>>
>>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/
>>
>> Is this going to be supported in a later build?
>>
>> I got it to use the existing swap slice by manually reconfiguring the 
>> ZFS-root BE post-install to use the swap slice as swap & dump - the 
>> resulting BE seems to work just fine, so I'm not sure why LU insists on 
>> creating ZFS swap & dump.
>>
>> Basically I want to migrate my root filesystem from UFS to ZFS and leave 
>> everything else as it it, there doesn't seem to be a way to do this.
>>
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