One for those running #ZFS on #Linux systems. I realise that you can’t have hibernate aka suspend to disk on a swap in the encrypted zpool but if you don’t use hibernation then is it OK to use swap using the likes of the command example below to set it up in the encrypted pool?

I should point out that I’m thinking of switching from my current Void Linux luks lvm setup to Void with fully encrypted zpool and zfsbootmenu on my ThinkPad P14s AMD Gen 1which has 16Gb ram that I may upgrade to 40Gb. It also has a 1Tb nvme.

zfs create -V “${v_swap_size}G” -b “$(getconf PAGESIZE)” -o compression=zle -o logbias=throughput -o sync=always -o primarycache=metadata -o secondarycache=none -o com.sun:auto-snapshot=false “$v_rpool_name/swap”

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    If hibernate isn’t a concern, I’d go with zram. Instead of swapping to a partition/file, zram compresses pages and stores them in RAM. This makes swapping quite fast.

    I’ve not found out how to enable it on Void, but the following app was mentioned on a Void forum.

    https://github.com/atweiden/zramen