[caiman-discuss] [zfs-discuss] swap & dump on ZFS volume

[jan damborsky]

Jeff Bonwick wrote:
>> To be honest, it is not quite clear to me, how we might utilize
>> dumpadm(1M) to help us to calculate/recommend size of dump device.
>> Could you please elaborate more on this ?
>
> dumpadm(1M) -c specifies the dump content, which can be kernel, kernel plus
> current process, or all memory.  If the dump content is 'all', the dump space
> needs to be as large as physical memory.  If it's just 'kernel', it can be
> some fraction of that.

I see - thanks a lot for clarification.

Jan