On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Jason
Pfingstmann wrote:
> Any thoughts on this? I don't see why it shouldn't work, but I've only been
> tinkering with ZFS for 2 days now and this is all unexplored territory.
You shouldn't need to fake the size of your file-backed vdevs.
If you plan on having
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:00:42AM -0700, Jason Pfingstmann wrote:
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> The reason I'm not waiting until I have the disks is mostly because it will
> take me several months to get the funds together and in the meantime, I need
> the extra space 1 or 2 drives gets me. Sinc
Thanks for the reply!
The reason I'm not waiting until I have the disks is mostly because it will
take me several months to get the funds together and in the meantime, I need
the extra space 1 or 2 drives gets me. Since the sparse files will only take
up the space in use, if I've migrated 2 of
On Fri, Aug 21 at 12:22, Jason Pfingstmann wrote:
This is an odd question, to be certain, but I need to find out what
size a 1.5 TB drive is to help me create a sparse/fake array.
(Personally, I think you're making your job a lot harder than it
should be. Just wait til you have the real disks,
This is an odd question, to be certain, but I need to find out what size a 1.5
TB drive is to help me create a sparse/fake array.
Basically, if I could have someone do a dd if=<1.5 TB disk> of= and
then post the ls -l size of that file, it would greatly assist me.
Here's what I'm doing:
I hav
