Lori Alt wrote: >>>> >>> Treat a pseudo-zvol like you would a slice. >> >> So these new zvol-like things don't support snapshots, etc, right? >> I take it they work by allowing overwriting of the data, correct? > yes, and yes >> Are these a zslice? > I suppose we could call them that. That's better than pseudo-zvol. > "rzvol" has also been suggested.
I think we should up-level this and extend to the community for comments. The proposal, as I see it, is to create a simple, contiguous (?) space which sits in a zpool. As such, it does inherit the behaviour of the zpool. But it does not inherit the behaviour of a file system or zvol (no snapshots, copies, etc.) While the original reason for this was swap, I have a sneaky suspicion that others may wish for this as well, or perhaps something else. Thoughts? (database folks, jump in :-) -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
