On 7/23/2010 10:51 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
On 7/23/2010 10:42 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On 24/07/2010, at 11:55, Freddie Cash wrote:
It's theoretical as I have not investigated how to create sparse
files on FreeBSD, nor have I done this. It's based on several
posts to the zfs-discuss mailing list where several people have
done this on OpenSolaris.
FYI you would do.. truncate -s 1T /tmp/fake-disk1 mdconfig -a -t
vnode -f /tmp/fake-disk1
etc..
Although you'd want to determine the exact size of your real disks
from geom and use that.
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/sparsefile1.img bs=1 count=0 oseek=2000G
0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000025 secs
(0 bytes/sec)
$ ls -l /tmp/sparsefile1.img -rw-r--r-- 1 dan wheel 2147483648000
Jul 23 22:49 /tmp/sparsefile1.img
$ ls -lh /tmp/sparsefile1.img -rw-r--r-- 1 dan wheel 2.0T Jul 23
22:49 /tmp/sparsefile1.img
Going a bit further, and actually putting 30MB of data in there:
$ rm sparsefile1.img
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/sparsefile1.img bs=1 count=0
oseek=2000G
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.000030 secs (0 bytes/sec)
$ ls -lh /tmp/sparsefile1.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 dan wheel 2.0T Jul 23 22:59 /tmp/sparsefile1.img
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=sparsefile1.img bs=1M count=30 conv=notrunc
30+0 records in
30+0 records out
31457280 bytes transferred in 0.396570 secs (79323405 bytes/sec)
$ ls -l sparsefile1.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 dan wheel 2147483648000 Jul 23 23:00 sparsefile1.img
$ ls -lh sparsefile1.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 dan wheel 2.0T Jul 23 23:00 sparsefile1.img
$
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Dan Langille - http://langille.org/
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