Darren J Moffat wrote: > jan damborsky wrote: >> I think it is necessary to have some absolute minimum >> and not allow installer to proceed if user doesn't >> provide at least minimum required, as we have to make >> sure that installation doesn't fail because of space >> issues. > > I very strongly disagree. > > Neither swap or dump are mandatory for running Solaris.
I agree with you in this point. Actually, the posted proposal count with dump to be optional. I am sorry about the confusion - by minimum space required I meant minimum disk space for installation, not minimum swap or dump space. > >> As this lower bound is not hard coded but dynamically calculated >> by the installer according to the size of bits to be installed, >> it reflects actual needs as far as necessary minimum space is >> required - it is currently ~4GiB. > > Which is unrealistically too high given that the actual amount of bits > that are put on disk by a minimal install. Installer currently uses following formula for calculating minimum required disk space: min_size = image_size * 1.2 + MIN_SWAP_SPACE, where MIN_SWAP_SPACE is 512MiB. > >> However, the absolute minimum always includes minimum swap space, >> which is now 512 MiB. I think the algorithm might be modified, >> so that swap space is not created if space doesn't allow it, >> but to be honest I don't know if this is what we want to allow > > Why not ? swap is not mandatory. I agree - I am just thinking, if it is fine in general to allow normal non-experienced user (who is the target audience for Slim installer) to run system without swap. To be honest, I don't know, since I am not very experienced in this area. If people agree that this is not issue at all, I don't have any objections against making swap optional. > > If there is enough space for the packages that will be installed but > not enough for swap or dump then the installation should proceed, it > just wouldn't create swap or dump. Please see above. Thank you, Jan _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
