2GB is as little RAM as I've run ZFS on successfully. I don't recommend it... Also, I'll warn anyone thinking of putting swap on ZFS that it's a really bad idea when your system becomes RAM-starved since ZFS access relies on RAM (for ARC). I've tried 1GB and 512MB and those just didn't work well...
yup, I've always put swap on gmirror
they really should make it harder to shut down the wrong machine
Who?
lol mkb
brycec: with freebsd?
Yes.
mkb: sometimes I've renamed the "shutdown" and "halt" binaries
That's what she said!!
BryceBot: no
Oh, okay... I'm sorry. 'mkb: sometimes I've renamed the "shutdown" and "halt" binaries'
to like "shutdown.<hostname>" and "halt.<hostname>"
mkb, up_the_irons: Is 'molly-guard' packaged for FreeBSD?
That solves the shutting down the wrong machine problem for me on Linux boxes
plett: interesting
ok, this is really wierd. I have my FreeBSD VPS rc.conf has the IP addresses and defaultrouter. When I boot, I have connectivity. But if I issue 'service netif restart' I lose the default route and need to reboot.
guess I was missing the service routing restart command after, which brings back the route
kernel removes default route b/c it is no longer valid (you took the interface away monetarily in the restart)