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Solaris UFS file system overview

UFS is the primary file system for the Solaris OS. UFS is extremely mature, very stable, and for most applications, is the file system of choice.

Solaris SAM and QFS file systems

When it comes to storage, Solaris provides more choices than any other OS. Add a couple of packages and you have a hierarchical storage manager.

Allocating Sufficient Swap Space

If the system needs more memory resources and the RAM is full, inactive pages in memory are moved to the swap space.

Veritas File System (VxFS) Cheat Sheet

This article is aimed a providing a list of basic commands for Veritas File System (VxFS).

Tuning a Solaris UFS file system

Using the tunesfs command you can modify certain parameters after creating the original file system without rebuilding the entire file system.