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How can I create a new swap location in ZFS?

I am running OpenSolaris v5.11

During installation, the installation created default ZFS filesystems, like the dump and swap locations.

I want to change the blocksize of the /dump and /swap locations and make them ZFS volumes.

The ZFS system is on a zpool called rpool

I was able to do a zfs destroy on /rpool/dump and then create another dump location with the proper options:
zfs create -b 131072 -V 1024m rpool/dump

I cannot destroy /rpool/swap though. It tells me that the ...dataset is busy. I did some investigating and found that I have to do a dumpadm but that doesn't work either:


>dumpadm -d swap
dumpadm: no swap devices could be configured as the dump device

>swap -l
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 182,1 8 16775160 16775160


How can I destroy the /rpool/swap directory and then create another swap directory and make it a volume with a particular blocksize? Do I rename the swap location to something else?

Thanx.
 
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swapmem_on(5)							     OBSOLETE							     swapmem_on(5)

NAME
swapmem_on - OBSOLETE kernel tunable parameter DESCRIPTION
The tunable is obsolete. Processes will always be allowed to use pseudo-swap space if it is available. In previous versions of HP-UX, system configuration required sufficient physical swap space for the maximum possible number of processes on the system. This is because HP-UX reserves swap space for a process when it is created, to ensure that a running process never needs to be killed due to insufficient swap. This was difficult, however, for systems needing gigabytes of swap space with gigabytes of physical memory, and those with workloads where the entire load would always be in core. This tunable was created to allow system swap space to be less than core memory. To accomplish this, a portion of physical memory is set aside as "pseudo-swap" space. While actual swap space is still available, processes still reserve all the swap they will need at fork or execute time from the physical device or file system swap. Once this swap is completely used, new processes do not reserve swap, and each page which would have been swapped to the physical device or file system is instead locked in memory and counted as part of the pseudo-swap space. WARNINGS
Installation of optional kernel software, from HP or other vendors, may cause changes to tunable parameter values. After installation, some tunable parameters may no longer be at the default or recommended values. For information about the effects of installation on tun- able values, consult the documentation for the kernel software being installed. For information about optional kernel software that was factory installed on your system, see at AUTHOR
was developed by HP. Tunable Kernel Parameters swapmem_on(5)