Working With ZFS Snapshots (pdf) (Jan. 2009; login required), a guide that
is intended to show a new user the capabilities of the ZFS snapshots feature
Deploying
Hybrid Storage Pools With Flash Technology and Solaris ZFS (Nov. 2008; registration required), a Sun BluePrints paper that describes how, by
combining Flash technology and the Solaris ZFS file system, you can combine the high performance of enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs) with the
low cost of high-capacity hard disks to create solutions that can help you balance system performance and cost
FAQ on ZFS and Solaris 10 10/08 OS (Oct. 2008), which describes how
Solaris 10 systems can now boot from ZFS and use ZFS as their root file system
Managing ZFS in Solaris 10 Containers (2005; login required), a guide that shows a new user
the capabilities of ZFS when coupled with Solaris Containers; also describes the assignment of a ZFS file system to a zone and some of the ZFS administrative
tasks in such a configuration
ZFS Overview and Guide (March 2007), a BigAdmin feature article that describes
how to use ZFS to organize physical storage devices into logical pools called storage pools
Implementing ZFS (XPert Transcript) (Feb. 2007), a transcript to
the BigAdmin XPert session with Chris Gerhard, Principal Engineer in Sun Service on implementing ZFS
Community-submitted resources:
Upgrading to the Solaris 10 10/08 OS for SPARC Platforms and From UFS Boot to
ZFS Boot (Dec. 2008), a community-submitted article that describes how to upgrade from the Solaris 10 5/08 release to Solaris 10 10/08 (for SPARC platforms) using Solaris Live Upgrade,
while manually creating a ZFS root pool, copying the UFS root file system into the ZFS root pool, and activating ZFS mirroring
Using ZFS for Zone Backups or Snapshots (April 2006), a community-submitted tip that
shows how to use the ZFS file system for temporary zone backups or snapshots
Blogs, Podcasts, and Third-Party Resources
ZFS Cheatsheet* (Sept. 2008), a third-party site that
provides sample ZFS commands and information on their usage
Using ZFS on a Laptop (June 2007), a blog by Eric Kustarz that recommends
using a ZFS snapshot instead of backing up your laptop data to a DVD or an external drive, since a ZFS snapshot stores only the data that
changed since the last snapshot
Solaris Tip of the Week: ZFS mount cleanup (Dec. 2008), a blog by Jay Danielsen
that provides a useful script for sorting out mount issues associated with large numbers of ZFS datasets
Why Solaris 10 ZFS Is So Important, a podcast by Bill Moore,
co-lead of the team that developed ZFS, that explains why ZFS is such an important feature of Solaris 10
