In the last episode (May 19), Ruben de Groot said: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:21:22AM +0100, Paul Wootton typed: > > Yes /DemoPool is a raidz pool that is going to replace my single disk > > pool. Dmitry was right about sparse files > > demophon# pwd > > /var/tmp/kdecache-paul/kpc > > demophon# du -hA . > > 1.2G . > > demophon# du -h . > > 8.9M . > > > > Is there a there a better way instead of using cpio for moving an entire > > filing system from a single disk zfs pool to a raidz zfs pool? Or does > > making a sparse file in to a none sparse file just consume more disk > > space and no other side affects > > zfs send/recv ? cpio has a --sparse option that might recreate the sparse on the destination filesystem. Another solution would be to enable compression on your pool: "zfs set compress=on /DemoPool". The default compression (lzjb) consumes very little CPU and compresses zeros well :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson_at_allantgroup.comReceived on Wed May 20 2009 - 01:44:34 UTC
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