Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:03 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays Message-ID: <AANLkTi=y%2BUJE9rgt-X3Wj6zHTCUfu67QnaDBzayb=a-5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=fMR1pQj11qCqMWwCM9nsovsm_PVh7%2BJeWF0ED@mail.gmail.com> References: <4C47B57F.5020309@langille.org> <4C48E695.6030602@langille.org> <718046944.20100723032259@nitronet.pl> <4C4A42D5.7080805@langille.org> <AANLkTi=fMR1pQj11qCqMWwCM9nsovsm_PVh7%2BJeWF0ED@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> 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. > Easiest way to create sparse eg 20 GB assuming test.img doesn't exist already truncate -s 20g test.img ls -sk test.img 1 test.img The other standard dd method works fine too, trucate just makes it easy. -- Adam Vande More
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