Fast Track to Solaris 10 Adoption: ZFS Technology
Documentation & Training
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- Can you walk us through the command line to create a ZFS file system? I am curious what the command line is to implement a RAID1 layout?
- This will be a big selling feature for moving to the Solaris 10 OS. When/where will there be detailed information I can present to my managers?
- Will information about storage on ZFS be available through kstat?
- Is there any literature that explains in detail the performance enhancements of the Solaris 10 OS?
- The only mention of ZFS on the net so far seems to be marketing material. Are there real docs online somewhere now? If so, where? If not, when?
Q: Can you walk us through the command line to create a ZFS file system? I am curious what the command line is to implement a RAID1 layout?
A: We haven't finalized the exact command line syntax, but you can expect to do something like: zpool create pool_name disk1 disk2 #create a ZFS storage pool with two striped disks ZFS create pool_name/fs_name #create a ZFS filesystem You would use a different "zpool create" command to make a mirrored pool. You would do something like: zpool create pool_name mirror disk1 disk2
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Q: This will be a big selling feature for moving to the Solaris 10 OS. When/where will there be detailed information I can present to my managers?
A: On Sept. 15, 2004, we did a major content refresh on our Solaris 10 OS site (www.sun.com/solaris/10). We have content there for both business and technical audiences.
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Q: Will information about storage on ZFS be available through kstat?
A: There will be extensive run-time performance data available from ZFS. We're investigating how best to provide this — kstat and DTrace are two (not mutually exclusive) possibilities.
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Q: Is there any literature that explains in detail the performance enhancements of the Solaris 10 OS?
A: Check our Solaris 10 OS Web site (www.sun.com/solaris/10) for content including details on DTrace and other areas where we get performance boosts. Benchmarks and specific details will be available when we ship the Solaris 10 OS at the end of 2004.
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Q: The only mention of ZFS on the net so far seems to be marketing material. Are there real docs online somewhere now? If so, where? If not, when?
A: We're working on publishing more in-depth documentation. For now, you can find some details on my Weblog at http://blogs.sun.com/ahrens.
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