> The real benefit of the of using a > separate zvol for each vm is the instantaneous > cloning of a machine, and the clone will take almost > no additional space initially. In our case we build a
You don't have to use ZVOL devices to do that. As mentioned by others... > zfs create my_pool/group1 > zfs create my_pool/group1/vm1 > zfs create my_pool/group1/vm2 In this case, 'vm1' and 'vm2' are on separate filesystems, that will show up in 'zfs list', since 'zfs create' was used to make them. But they are still both under the common mount point '/my_pool/group1' Now, you could zfs snapshot my_pool/group1/v...@snap-1-2009-06-12 zfs clone my_pool/group1/v...@snap-1-2009-06-12 my_pool/group1/vm3 zfs promote my_pool/group1/vm3 And you would then have your clone, also under the common mount point.. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
