[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS storage best practices

[Dan Swartzendruber]

No, just a sparse file.

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From: Gabriele Bulfon [mailto:gbulfon at sonicle.com] 
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 4:16 AM
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS storage best practices

Hi, about the "thin-provisione file", do you mean a thin-provisioned volume
(a zvol swith -s)
or something different?
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Da: Dan Swartzendruber
A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Data: 27 maggio 2011 23.06.49 CEST
Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS storage best practices
One caveat: rather than a zvol, I would use a thin-provisioned file to
back the iSCSI LUN.  People (including me) have experienced inferior
performance using the zvol...