Not sure if this is the right list for this (apologies if
not) but here
goes...
Over the last week I've spent a lot of time getting to know
ZFS; starting
with basically no knowledge of how the bits and pieces are
structured, nor
how to use it, and (with a lot of late nights) getting to
the point where I
feel comfortable using it for a ~2TB raidz server.
I've been using FreeBSD for about 8 years, so I'm
comfortable using the
system, my learning curve was purely with zfs. So at the
suggestion of a
friend I made a bunch of notes and wrote an intro to zfs as
I now see it,
and made some specific notes on things that I didn't find
obvious from the
documentation (at least the docs I found... which were the
ZFS Tuning Guide
on wiki.freebsd.org, the sun ZFS administrator's guide,
zfs/zpool man pages
and a bunch of blogs). Mostly the structure of the differnet
elements of ZFS
(zpools, file systems, vdevs, zvols) and how they interact,
but also a few
limitations of how those can be configured.
I figure what I've written may be (hopefully) useful to
others with UNIX
experience but brand new to ZFS, or, better still, if
someone is writing a
wiki or documentation for ZFS on bsd, i'm happy for any of
what i've written
to be used for that kind of thing.
post 1 - basic intro, overview of the structure of zfs
(zpools, zfs, vdevs,
zvols and how they all interact)
h
ttp://blog.thefrog.net/2008/04/zfs-on-freebsd.html
post 2 - some notable limitations and features i didn't
really get from my
reading of the docs (and a bug that i've yet to reproduce in
a debug kernel)
http://blog.thefrog.net/2008/04/more-zfs-on-freebsd.html
i'm providing links because there's a rather large amount of
text, which
will no doubt have the odd mistake to fix as they're pointed
out to me
anyway, hope it helps someone
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