Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:51:12 -0400 From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays Message-ID: <4C4A5520.7060209@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <D9C98D21-E43E-4747-8D39-71A195B6C8C6@gsoft.com.au> References: <4C47B57F.5020309@langille.org> <4C48E695.6030602@langille.org> <718046944.20100723032259@nitronet.pl> <4C4A42D5.7080805@langille.org> <AANLkTi=fMR1pQj11qCqMWwCM9nsovsm_PVh7%2BJeWF0ED@mail.gmail.com> <D9C98D21-E43E-4747-8D39-71A195B6C8C6@gsoft.com.au>
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On 7/23/2010 10:42 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > 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. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/sparsefile1.img bs=1 count=0 oseek=2000G 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000025 secs (0 bytes/sec) $ ls -l /tmp/sparsefile1.img -rw-r--r-- 1 dan wheel 2147483648000 Jul 23 22:49 /tmp/sparsefile1.img $ ls -lh /tmp/sparsefile1.img -rw-r--r-- 1 dan wheel 2.0T Jul 23 22:49 /tmp/sparsefile1.img -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/
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