> 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 to myself.
Okay, it's just wrong, but it appears to work.... :-)
# zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
tank 1.40M 8.24G 25.5K /tank
tank/test 24.5K 8.24G 24.5K /tank/test
tank/zvol1 1.28M 8.24G 1.28M -
vtank 76K 1.91T 24.5K /vtank
vtank is a zpool on top of tank/zvol1
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
vtank ONLINE 0 0 0
/dev/zvol/dsk/tank/zvol1 ONLINE 0 0 0
# cp /usr/sbin/xntpdc /vtank
# zfs list vtank
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
vtank 178K 1.91T 126K /vtank
I don't think I want to reboot it in this state, though. :-)
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Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
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