On 6/14/07, Paul Hedderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is this currently possible?
You may be able to do this my specifying a sparse file for the last device, and then immediately issuing a "zpool offline" of it after the pool is created. It seems to work, and I was able to create a pool that way with no complaints. You can create a 400GB sparse file with something like: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=1 seek=400000 of=/path/to/vdev_file Unfortunately, tmpfs doesn't seem to support sparse files, and while it did appear to work on a ZFS filesystem, I'm not sure if it is a good idea. (I don't have any UFS filesystems.) Perhaps someone else can comment on this? Still, you will have no redundancy during this operation, so I hope you have backups. Chris Csanady _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
