Re: [zfs-discuss] Can you create a degraded raidz vdev?

[Matthew Ahrens]

Chris Csanady wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Paul Hedderly <paul+os@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is this currently possible?
>
> You may be able to do this my specifying a sparse file for the last
> device, and then immediately issuing a "zpool offline" of it after the
> pool is created.  It seems to work, and I was able to create a pool
> that way with no complaints.
>
> You can create a 400GB sparse file with something like:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=1 seek=400000 of=/path/to/vdev_file

Alternatively:
mkfile -n 400g

--matt
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