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    Disable ZFS thin-provisioning (sparse)

    Hi everybody, I am facing following problem: currently I have "sparse" enabled in "/etc/pve/storage.cfg", which means thin-provisioning: zfspool: local-zfs pool rpool/data content images,rootdir sparse 1 Now as far as I understand, this leads to not showing the...
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    sparse and compression

    Dear all, Is it advisable to use sparse on ZFS pools performance wise? And compression? Which kind of compression? Can I change a zpool to sparse on the fly or do I need to turn off all VMs before doing so? Why a virtual disk shows as 60G when originally It was 36 Gb in raw format? NAME...

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