Another approach is to make a new virtual disk and attach it as a mirror. Once the silver is complete, detach and destroy the old virtual disk. Normal procedures for bootable disks still apply.
This works because ZFS only silvers data. -- richard On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > Hi John, > > You might check with the virtualguru, Rudolf Kutina. > > I haven't had a chance to test this, but he had documented a > way to shrink a pool in VBox, described here: > > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5993 > > Thanks, > > Cindy > > On 01/22/10 12:00, John Hoogerdijk wrote: >> Is there a way to zero out unused blocks in a pool? I'm looking for ways to >> shrink the size of an opensolaris virtualbox VM and >> using the compact subcommand will remove zero'd sectors. >> Thanks, >> John Hoogerdijk >> Sun Microsystems of Canada IMO >> Network Computer NC Ltd. >> 808 240 Graham Avenue >> Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 0J7, Canada >> Phone: 204.927.1932 >> Cell: 204.230.6720 >> Fax: 204.927.1939 >> Email: john.hoogerd...@sun.com >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
