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. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
