> I have already run into one little snag that I don't see any way of > overcoming with my chosen method. I've upgraded to snv_129 with high hopes > for getting the most out of deduplication. But using iSCSI volumes I'm not > sure how I can gain any benefit from it. The volumes are a set size, Windows > sees those volumes as that size despite any sort of block level deduplication > or compression taking place on the other side of the iSCSI connection. I > can't create volumes that add up to more than the original pool size from > what I can tell. I can see the pool is saving space but it doesn't appear to > become available to zfs volumes. Dedup being pretty new I haven't found much > on the subject online.
Create sparse volumes. -s when you create at volume or change the reservation on your volumes. Search for sparse in the zfs man-page. And don't run out of space. :-) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
