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Why rpool/swap volume uses a USEDREFRESERV less than REFRESERV ?

edited Jul 26, 2012 11:13PM in Oracle Solaris System Administration (MOSC) 2 commentsAnswered
Hello,
I've got to know a little more about ZFS volumes but, in particular, I still don't understand why rpool/swap doesn't realize all of its reservation as ordinary volumes.
Furthermore, rpool/swap is not a sparse volume such as rpool/dump which has REFRESERV = none.

What motivates my questioning is that this may have consequences (as happened to a coworker of mine) on (old) systems using ZFS without enough AVAIL in rpool for an eventual snapshot of rpool/swap.
Of course I can't envision any special reason for snapshotting rpool/swap but it can happen as part of a disaster recovery procedure described in the official documentation.

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