ZFS Hardware Maintenance
Once the drive has been physically replaced, run the 'zfs replace' command against the device to allow it to be brought back online.
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ZFS Data Protection
ZFS is a transactional file system. For each write request, a copy is made of the specified block protected by Copy-On-Write (COW)
ZFS Dataset Size
A simple entry on how to discover or set the size for a given ZFS dataset as occasionaly we need to increase the size of a ZFS dataset.
ZFS Pool Management
When disks are added to an existing mirrored or RAID Z pool, the ZFS is resilvered to redistribute the data.
ZFS Internals
Max Bruning wrote an excellent paper on how to examine the internals of a ZFS data structure.
ZFS and Sun Cluster integration
A ZFS owned disk may be promoted to be a quorum disk on current Sun Cluster versions
ZFS Zones
If the filesystem is created in the global zone and added to the local zone via zonecfg, it may be assigned to more than one zone
ZFS Performance Monitoring
In ZFS, I/Os are scheduled similarly to how jobs are scheduled on CPUs.
ZFS Raid Levels
ZFS filesystems automatically stripe across all top-level disk devices. (Mirrors and RAID-Z devices are considered to be top-level devices)
ZFS Filesystem Management
Similar filesystems should be grouped together in hierarchies to make management easier.