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ZFS Pool Management

18 Jan 2014 1 minute read 3012 visits.

When disks are added to an existing mirrored or RAID Z pool, the ZFS is resilvered to redistribute the data.

17 Jan 2014 1 minute read 3312 visits.

Max Bruning wrote an excellent paper on how to examine the internals of a ZFS data structure.

17 Jan 2014 1 minute read 2923 visits.

A ZFS owned disk may be promoted to be a quorum disk on current Sun Cluster versions

17 Jan 2014 1 minute read 1392 visits.

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

17 Jan 2014 1 minute read 3749 visits.

In ZFS, I/Os are scheduled similarly to how jobs are scheduled on CPUs.

17 Jan 2014 1 minute read 3193 visits.

ZFS filesystems automatically stripe across all top-level disk devices. (Mirrors and RAID-Z devices are considered to be top-level devices)

17 Jan 2014 1 minute read 2873 visits.

Similar filesystems should be grouped together in hierarchies to make management easier.

12 Jan 2014 1 minute read 4050 visits.

It all stemmed from a problem with disk space, namely the disk partition where the NSR resided became full

11 Jan 2014 1 minute read 4865 visits.

CYGWIN has many utilities you can install to make life as a UNIX administrator more homely within a windows environment, except cron

7 Jan 2014 1 minute read 3162 visits.

A simple post providing the steps necessary to rename a guest domain