Dan Naumov wrote: As far as I know, using swap on top of a "non-trivial" filesystem like ZFS is considered "unsupported", but it does in fact work. You can create a ZVOL of arbitrary size (say, 4G) and then do the following: zfs set org.freebsd:swap=on pool/swapvolname to have /etc/rc.d/zfs enable swap on said ZVOL on every boot. You can also do this in an ugly way: put swapon /dev/zvol/<poolname>/<swapvolname> into your /etc/rc.local (without having to pass the "org.freebsd:swap=on" option to the ...

Hello list. As far as I know, using swap on top of a "non-trivial" filesystem like ZFS is considered "unsupported", but it does in fact work. You can create a ZVOL of arbitrary size (say, 4G) and then do the following: zfs set org.freebsd:swap=on pool/swapvolname to have /etc/rc.d/zfs enable swap on said ZVOL on every boot. You can also do this in an ugly way: put swapon /dev/zvol/<poolname>/<swapvolname> into your /etc/rc.local (without having to pass the "org.freebsd:swap=on" option to ...