[rhelv6-list] How can I create sparse block devices as a logical volumes with lvm
John Haxby
john.haxby at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 11:37:01 UTC 2011
On 4 February 2011 08:50, carlopmart <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to create sparse block devices with LVM (logical volumes
> not volume groups) on RHEL6 like ZFS does??
>
>
Do you mean something like this (from the lvcreate man page):
"lvcreate --virtualsize 1T --size 100M --snapshot --name sparse vg1"
creates a sparse device named /dev/vg1/sparse of size 1TB with
space
for just under 100MB of actual data on it.
jch
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