[zfs-discuss] ZFS and thin provisioning

2007-02-01 Thread Andre Lue
I found this article (http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=729) but I have 2 questions. I am trying the steps on Opensolaris build 54. Since you create the filesystem with newfs, isn't that really a ufs filesystem running on top of zfs? Also I haven't been able to do anything in

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and thin provisioning

2007-02-01 Thread Darren Dunham
I found this article (http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=729) but I have 2 questions. I am trying the steps on Opensolaris build 54. Since you create the filesystem with newfs, isn't that really a ufs filesystem running on top of zfs? In this case, yes. I wonder if you could

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and thin provisioning

2007-02-01 Thread Darren Dunham
In this case, yes. I wonder if you could create a second zfs pool on the volume. (Starting such pools at boot time might be problematic though!). The idea is that you have sparse raw storage available to you. The example placed a UFS filesystem on it, but you could do otherwise. Followup