I have never presented a file created with -n option to a LDOM, I have always use mkfile without -n.
But I think when we present a file with -n to a LDOM as above then it will be visible as a disk with 160g size, its usage will be governed by the actual disk usage which you can confirm through the below commands.
Hence the first command will give you 160g whereas the second one will give you actual disk space used by the file which will be 130g.
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we are experiencing very odd behavior. After "mkfile 1g <somefile>" the available memory seen through vmstat memory free column decreases by the same ammount. It doesn't matter where the <somefile> is located, even when the file is on NAS, the available memory decreases. When the file is... (2 Replies)
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mkfile
mkfile(1M)mkfile(1M)NAME
mkfile - create a file
SYNOPSIS
mkfile [-nv] size [g | k | b | m] filename...
mkfile creates one or more files that are suitable for use as NFS-mounted swap areas, or as local swap areas. When a root user executes
mkfile(), the sticky bit is set and the file is padded with zeros by default. When non-root users execute mkfile(), they must manually
set the sticky bit using chmod(1). The default size is in bytes, but it can be flagged as gigabytes, kilobytes, blocks, or megabytes, with
the g, k, b, or m suffixes, respectively.
-n Create an empty filename. The size is noted, but disk blocks are not allocated until data is written to them. Files created with
this option cannot be swapped over local UFS mounts.
-v Verbose. Report the names and sizes of created files.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of mkfile when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
chmod(1), swap(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5)
2 Feb 2001 mkfile(1M)