ZFS is a filesystem and volume manager that provides large volumes, data integrity, snapshots and clones. It has advantages over traditional volume managers like large capacity support, snapshots, clones, encryption and software RAID. ZFS was developed by Sun Microsystems at a cost of billions of dollars. The document then provides examples of creating and managing ZFS pools, datasets, snapshots, clones, sharing datasets using NFS, compression and quotas. It also describes importing, exporting, replacing and checking the status of ZFS pools.
ZFS is a filesystem and volume manager that provides large volumes, data integrity, snapshots and clones. It has advantages over traditional volume managers like large capacity support, snapshots, clones, encryption and software RAID. ZFS was developed by Sun Microsystems at a cost of billions of dollars. The document then provides examples of creating and managing ZFS pools, datasets, snapshots, clones, sharing datasets using NFS, compression and quotas. It also describes importing, exporting, replacing and checking the status of ZFS pools.
ZFS is a filesystem and volume manager that provides large volumes, data integrity, snapshots and clones. It has advantages over traditional volume managers like large capacity support, snapshots, clones, encryption and software RAID. ZFS was developed by Sun Microsystems at a cost of billions of dollars. The document then provides examples of creating and managing ZFS pools, datasets, snapshots, clones, sharing datasets using NFS, compression and quotas. It also describes importing, exporting, replacing and checking the status of ZFS pools.
ZFS is a filesystem and volume manager that provides large volumes, data integrity, snapshots and clones. It has advantages over traditional volume managers like large capacity support, snapshots, clones, encryption and software RAID. ZFS was developed by Sun Microsystems at a cost of billions of dollars. The document then provides examples of creating and managing ZFS pools, datasets, snapshots, clones, sharing datasets using NFS, compression and quotas. It also describes importing, exporting, replacing and checking the status of ZFS pools.
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ZFS
ZFS :- Zetta Byte filesystem is introduced on Solaris 10 Release.To
develop this filesystem cum volume manager,Sun Micro-systems had spend lot of years and some billion dollars money. ZFS has many cool features over traditional volume managers like SVM,VXVM.
MULTIPLE TERABYTE DISK SUPPORT IN ZFS, BUT SVM NOT SUPPORT.
ZFS 128BIT SUPPORT,BUT UFS 64BIT SUPPORT.
Advantages:- 1.Zpool Capacity of 256 zettabytes
2.ZFS snapshots,clones and Sending-receiving snapshots
3.Lightweight filesystem creation
4.Encryption
5.Software RAID
6.Data integrity
7.Integrated Volume management (No need an additional volume
manager)
Disadvantages :- 1.No way to reduce the zpool capacity
2. Re-silver takes more time in zpool raid.
(1) To Create a simple zpool :-
# zpool create <zpool_name> <device_name>
#zpool create szpool c1t2d0
# zpool list szpool
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP HEALTH ALTROOT
szpool 89M 97K 88.9M 0% ONLINE -
(2) To create a mirror zpool :- # zpool create mzpool mirror c1t5d0 c1t6d0
# zpool list mzpool
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP HEALTH ALTROOT
mzpool 89M 97K 88.9M 0% ONLINE -
(3) To Create a raidz zpool :-
# zpool create rzpool raidz c1t2d0 c1t1d0 c1t8d0
# zpool list rzpool
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP HEALTH ALTROOT
rzpool 266M 176K 266M 0% ONLINE -
(4) In this second task, we are going to see how to create
new dataset under zpool.This is like creating new volumes in vxvm :-
To create zfs dataset:You can see after creating the
volume,automatically dataset is mounted on /szpool/vol1 and zfs doesn’t require any vfstab entry for this :- bash-3.00# zfs create szpool/vol1
bash-3.00# zfs list |grep szpool
szpool 105K 56.9M 21K /szpool
szpool/vol1 21K 56.9M 21K /szpool/vol1
(5) To set manual mount point:If you want to set specific
mount point for zfs dataset, use the below command :- bash-3.00# zfs set mountpoint=/ora_vol1 szpool/vol1
bash-3.00# zfs list |grep szpool
szpool 115K 56.9M 22K /szpool
szpool/vol1 21K 56.9M 21K /ora_vol1
bash-3.00# df -h /ora_vol1 Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
szpool/vol1 57M 21K 57M 1% /ora_vol1
(6) To share dataset(volume in vxvm,svm etc.) through
NFS:We can share the zfs dataset by modifying the zfs attribute :- bash-3.00# zfs get sharenfs szpool/vol1
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
szpool/vol1 sharenfs off default
bash-3.00# zfs set sharenfs=on szpool/vol1
bash-3.00# zfs get sharenfs szpool/vol1
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
szpool/vol1 sharenfs on local
(7) To compress dataset(volume in vxvm, svm etc.) ZFS
has default compression option.You can enable it using zfs set command :-
bash-3.00# zfs get compression szpool/vol1
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
szpool/vol1 compression off default
bash-3.00# zfs set compression=on szpool/vol1
bash-3.00# zfs get compression szpool/vol1
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
szpool/vol1 compression on local
(8) To create dataset under dataset (sub volume in
You can use the quota property to set a limit on the amount of space a file system can use. In addition, you can use the reservation property to guarantee that some amount of space is available to a file system. Both properties apply to the dataset they are set on and all descendents of that dataset.
(9) Setting reservation to dataset :-
bash-3.00# zfs set reservation=20M szpool/vol1/oraarch
bash-3.00# zfs get reservation szpool/vol1/oraarch
