Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays
Daniel O'Connor
doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Sat Jul 24 02:42:49 UTC 2010
On 24/07/2010, at 11:55, Freddie Cash wrote:
> It's theoretical as I have not investigated how to create sparse files
> on FreeBSD, nor have I done this. It's based on several posts to the
> zfs-discuss mailing list where several people have done this on
> OpenSolaris.
FYI you would do..
truncate -s 1T /tmp/fake-disk1
mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /tmp/fake-disk1
etc..
Although you'd want to determine the exact size of your real disks from geom and use that.
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