Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

[Daniel O'Connor]

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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