On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 03:23:34PM +0100, Miguel González wrote: > > >> Can I change a zpool to sparse on the fly or do I need to turn off all > >> VMs before doing so? > > > > sparse will only affect newly created volumes. you can "convert" sparse > > volumes to fully reserved ones and vice versa manually though. > > > > how can I convert manually from non-sparse to sparse? Creating a new > zpool and copy disk with dd? Or any other easier way?
(un)set the reservations appropriately. like I said, "sparse" is entirely virtual for ZFS, the only difference is whether the full size is reserved upon creation or not. > >> Why a virtual disk shows as 60G when originally It was 36 Gb in raw > >> format? > >> > >> NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > >> rpool/data/vm-102-disk-1 60.0G 51.3G 20.9G - > > > > wild guess - you are using raidz of some kind? ashift is set to 12 / > > auto-detected? > > Yes, raid1 > > Thanks for your promptly reply! raid1 (aka mirror)? or raidZ-1 ? those are two very different things ;) _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list [email protected] https://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
