bsdinstall, zfs booting, gpt partition order suitable for volume expansion

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Tue Dec 17 14:54:54 UTC 2013


On 10.12.2013 21:53, Adam McDougall wrote:
> I was wondering if either the default gpt partition order could become
> p1=boot, p2=swap, p3=zpool, or if the installer could be enhanced at
> some point to allow the user to select the order.  It seems like it would

Hi,

I think the following scheme is more expansible:
p1=boot, p2=zpool, p3=swap

You always can remove swap partition and change the size of zpool, then
add swap partition. Also, you can expand swap partition when the amount
of memory will be increased.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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