ZFS is a large consu6 of RAM. I would think putting swap in ZFS is a terrible idea. I have not checked current recommendations.
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OK I've only come across the command in the example twice whilst looking.
And here where they say it does work ?
https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/psr6bp/comment/hdrk237/
You might try adding a cache drive instead. It can help lessen the memory usage zfs needs to maintain speed. My server is spinning rust with an ssd drive attached to the pool as cache.
Command would be “zpool add pool_name cache /dev/sdX” where pool_name is the pool you want the cache on, and /dev/sdX is the empty drive you want to use with it (or partition). Make sure to encrypt this drive before setting this up, my knowledge is zfs doesn’t do that for you.
see here for a bit more information on caching.
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It’s 512GB of ssd cache plus 128GB of ram, so for now that’s been enough
Ah sorry I responded to the wrong post somehow. Meant that for OP
ZFS was built initially for large SANs so it's very cache driven. You should get two SSDs and add both for cache.
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.
ThinkPad P14s AMD Gen 1
Both the laptop and the stock NVMe drive supports Opal2. Not sure about your second drive but if it also supports Opal2, then you should just use that instead of ZFS encryption, since Opal encryption is transparent to the OS, so you won't have any issues with hibernation.
Call me a slowpoke, but I've just learned about Opal2. Would this work with LUKS2 and other OS encryption?
Yes, but the whole point of using Opal2 encryption is that you don't need to use OS-level FDE/filesystem encryption, thus simplifying your set up.
Of course, you can still use them if you want to though.
I don't have the source right now, but I had the same idea not long ago, and the tl;dr is swap on a zvol is a very bad idea. If your system ever runs low on memory and actually needs to do heavy swapping, you're setting yourself up for a catastrophe.