Solving Common Administration Problems with ZFS
One of the most interesting features in Solaris is its ZFS filesystem. Read on for a quick guide to ZFS administration.
ZFS is an open source file system that was developed at Sun Microsystems and runs on OpenSolaris releases and Solaris 10 releases. The ZFS file system was also ported to Fuse, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X releases. In this article, we’ll look at some basic tasks that you can do with ZFS, and how to accomplish them.
ZFS is About Easy Administration
ZFS is a general purpose file system that is built on top of a storage pool. You can use ZFS to reduce the time it takes to manage your storage and your data because ZFS cuts out the middle man. ZFS doesn’t use a virtualized volume layer like other volume management products, so, you can easily aggregate your storage under ZFS with a few simple commands.
ZFS makes it easy to create and manage file systems without needing multiple commands or editing configuration files. You can easily…
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