On 2/5/10 5:08 PM -0500 c.hanover wrote:
would it be possible to create a 1GB file without writing any data to it, and then use a hex editor to access the data stored on those blocks previously?
No, not over NFS and also not locally. You'd be creating a sparse file, which doesn't allocate space on disk for any filesystem (not just zfs). So when you read it back, you get back all 0s. The only way to actually allocate the space on disk is to write to it, and then of course you read back the data you wrote, not what was previously there. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
