Browse Articles 2009 (6) 2008 (23) August (2) July (1) June (3) May (17) Solaris - Crontab NETSTAT Usage in Solaris State Database Replicas - Introduction Solaris Volume Management - Introduction Creating a Swap File/Partition in Solaris Implementing a Temporary File System (TEMPFS) in S... How to determine file system associated with devic... Steps to partition and create file systems on a So... NAS and SAN - A Comparison (for newbies) Tips on Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) Solaris Guru ~ Helps you Get Quick Start on Solaris Solaris related quick tips and tricks. t u e s d a y , ma y 2 0 , 2 0 0 8 ZFS - Introduction ###Zettabyte File System (ZFS)###
Some Features: 1. Supports storage space of upto 256 quadrillion zettabytes (Terabytes - Petabytes - Exabytes - Zettabytes(1024 Exabytes)) 2. Supports RAID-0/1 & RAID-Z(which is nothing but RAID-5 with enhancements. Best part is you dont need 3 disks to achieve RAID-5 on ZFS, even with 2 virtual devices, ZFS provides and good amount of redundancy.) 3. Support File System Snapshots (read-only copies of file systems or volumes.) 4. Supports creation of volumes (which can contain disks, partitions, files) 5. Uses storage pools to manage storage - aggregates virtual devices 6. ZFS File system attached to storage pool can grow dynamically as storage is added. No need to reformat or backup your data before you add any extra storage. 7. File systems may span multiple physical disks without any extra software or even efforts. 8. ZFS is transactional so its all or nothing. If a write / read operation fails for some reason, the entire transaction is rolled back. 9. Pools & file systems are auto-mounted. No need to maintain /etc/vfstab (automatically handled through XML Files.) 10. Supports file system hierarchies: /storage1/{home(50GB),var (100GB),etc.} 11. Supports reservation of storage: /storage1/{home(50GB),var} 12. Solaris 10, provides a secure web-based ZFS management tool @ https://localhost:6789/zfs
Page 1 of 5 Solaris Guru ~ Helps you Get Quick Start on Solaris: ZFS - Introduction 4/27/2012 http://solarisguru.getquickstart.com/2008/05/zfs-introduction.html Categories Basics (11) (SAN) Storage (2) Veritas Volume Manager - Quick Start Command Refer... Mirroring Disk With Solaris Disksuite (formerly So... Gigabit Ethernet Configuration ZFS - Introduction Solaris Zones - Introduction ZFS - Training Video SAN Storage Configuration in Solaris BLOG Maintained by - Vishal Sharma | GetQuickStart ###ZFS - Quick Command Reference### zpool list - lists known ZFS pools zpool create pool_name device_name1, device_name2, device_name3, etc. zpool create storage1 c0t1d0|/dev/dsk/c0t1d0 zfs list - returns ZFS dataset info. zfs mount - returns pools and mount points zpool status - returns virtual devices that constitute pools zpool destroy storage1 - Destroys pool and associated file systems
###Create file systems within storage1### zfs create storage1/home - creates file system named 'home' in storage1
###Set quota on existing file system### zfs set quota=10G storage1/home
###Create user-based file system beneath storage1/home### zfs create storage1/home/vishal
zfs get -r compression storage1 - returns compression property for file systems associated with 'storage1'
rename between different pool names is not possible.
Rollback a zfs snapshot
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File systems need to be remounted for roll back to work. Solution is use f
zfs rollback f snapraidz1/home@homesnap4
ZFS Clones
Features: Writeable file systems / Volumes. Clones are linked to snapshots. Clone can be stored anywhere in zfs hierarchy
Create a clone
zfs clone snapraidz1/home@homesnap4 snapraidz1/homeclone1 (directory would be created) Posted by Vishal Sharma at 9:17 PM Labels: ZFS 1 comments: G.Rengarajan said... Really it is very useful.Keep update like this....
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