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# Copyright (c) 2010-2011 David Love
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# @author David Love

# Defines a class capable of manipulating ZFS volumes. This classes uses
# the standard command line tools (+zfs+ and +zpool+), not the C API.
class ZFS
  
  # Create a new volume, at the specified location and of the specified
  # size.
  #
  # NOTE: This command currently only supports the creation of sparse
  # volumes. If you really need pre-allocated volumes for some reason,
  # this command needs to be extended
  def self.new_volume(volume_path, volume_size)
    
    # Create the volume
    cmd = %x[zfs create -s -V #{volume_size} #{volume_path}]

  end

end
  

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shu-san-scripts-0.1.0	lib/SANStore/zfs/zfs.rb