Showing posts with label zfs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zfs. Show all posts

26 May 2011

Replicating a ZFS FS Between Hosts

Occasionally, it can be useful to fully replicate a volume of data from
one host to another.  Perhaps you need to mirror a production filesystem
(FS) for use in development, need a sane backup, etc.  The following
describes one way of doing this using ZFS.  Additionally, we're going

19 October 2010

ZFS Pool and FS Creation

Volume and file system management are traditionally separate affairs,
being created and maintained individually of one another.  With Sun's
ZFS, the line between the two become blurred.  As a brief understanding,
a 'zpool' can be generically considered a volume, comprised of multiple