Hi Sandy, Yes. It is a file which can created with mkfile. The file can seat in the I/O service domain on UFS or even ZFS. ZFS is cool when hosting these files, as it offers snapshot, and clone capabilities.
Cheers Kenneth Sandy DeGraw ASSE-Atlanta wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sorry to sound dumb, but what does "file exported as a block > device", mean exactly? > > Is it a zfs filesystem ? > Is it a mkfile ? > > I'm trying to create multiple ldoms on a T5120, which has only 2 disks. > Disk0 is for the root/os/primary etc. > Disk1 , I was hoping to use for the multiple ldoms, I tried using > different slices of disk1, > which will NOT work, as you knew and I figured out the hard way. > So I'm left with "file exported as a block device" > > Any comments welcome. > > Thanks, > --Sandy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ldoms-discuss mailing list > ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ldoms-discuss/attachments/20080530/1af3f2c8/attachment.html>
