> With the introduction of zfs as a root file system, > we have the opportunity to change the system configuration set up > by default on newly-installed systems.?? Up until now, > the installation process has, by default, set up one slice to be used for both > swap and dump. With the change to zfs as a root file system, we > won't be setting up a separate slice for swap anymore.? Instead, it > will be a zvol within the pool.? Perhaps we should take advantage of > the fact that the nature of swap is changing anyway and also change the > default configuration to have separate zvols for swap and > dump.?
As Stephen says, this would be good. It's a bit sad that the default install has not followed best practices for the last while. It would be good to get in front of this and ensure that the two mesh up moving forward with the zfs root project. For various reasons, best practices are not always followed, but the situation worsens considerably when a standard install does not follow said. If we can "force" best practices right from the install, that would be a big gain. Thanks for the details on this, and for the look forward. Rainer (Note the quotes around "force." We need to allow people to change this if they want/need. There may be legitimate reasons for doing so.) This message posted from opensolaris.org
