Removing drives when "swap" is allocated

[tyjgHoVeqqNeAJUr]

Hello,

I have FreeNAS running on hot-swappable hardware. FreeNAS has "taken" 2GB of each of my disks to use as system swap.

Q: Can I still pull a drive from my system? How does the system handle its swap being suddenly removed?

Thank you,

Chris

 

[cyberjock]

You don't "just pull a drive" from the system. You detach it in accordance with the manual, which disables swap so you can then safely pull the drive. Pulling a drive that hasn't been detached in accordance with the manual can cause the system to become unstable and may damage your pool.

 

[warri]

Additionally to that, in normal operation FreeNAS hardly uses the swap space at all. It's just there to prevent system crashes should you ever run out of free memory.