Quoting Joseph Mocker <[email protected]>:
A Hettinger wrote:
one method that does work, is to use a comstar iscsi port on the
loopback device, mount it locally then use "dd" to move the content
of your old backing store to the new device.
you can then set up views to whatever you want. it's ugly, but it does work.
Ah, clever. hopefully a sparse ZVOL would be smart enough not to
allocate blocks of zeros.
I'd hold off on the sparse volume. I've done some testing that seems
to suggest that sparse volumes *seem* to be less performant than
regular zvols.
I'm compiling the data now and I hope to publish it to the list shortly..
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