On 18/01/2011 21:21, Dave Miner wrote:
> On 01/18/11 11:22 AM, Drew Fisher wrote:
>> Dermot,
>>
>>
>> On 1/18/11 7:53 AM, Dermot McCluskey wrote:
> ,,,
>>> - Q: where do <swap> and <dump> go? under <target> or <logical>?
>>>
>>
>> Honestly, I don't know yet.  For Zvol based swap/dump, perhaps that
>> could be an attribute to a <zvol> object which is a child under a
>> <zpool> object?  is_swap (true|false) "false" or something like that?
>>
>> For UFS based ... I have no idea.  Are we even supporting UFS swap/dump?
>>
> 
> There are some corner-case advantages to swap and dump slices (don't say 
> UFS, because it doesn't involve UFS :-) over zvol's at present that 
> might appeal to specific situations.  If we can easily support them in 
> the syntax, that would be good, even if we don't implement support in 
> the code immediately (or ever).
> 

I believe the last time we met (Friday) to talk about targets, we talked about
adding a 'swap=(true|false}' attribute to the <slice> tag, defaulting to 'false'
- and I still feel this is the best approach to allow creation of a swap slice.

This would handle the swap on a slice or not.

Thanks,

Darren.
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