Sponsored Content
Operating Systems Solaris Please explain why ZFS is said to be a hybrid filesystem and a volume manager also Post 302553882 by Klyde on Friday 9th of September 2011 05:20:50 AM
Old 09-09-2011
Question Please explain why ZFS is said to be a hybrid filesystem and a volume manager also

Hi guys!

How come ZFS is said to be not just a filesystem but a hybrid filesystem and also a volume manager? Please explain.

I will appreciate your replies. Hope you can help me figure this out.
Thanks in advance!
 

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

veritas filesystem and volume manager

WHat is the difference between Veritas filesystem and veritas volume manager? Regards (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: knarayan
2 Replies

2. Solaris

How to resize mirror volume in veritas volume manager 3.5 on Solaris 9 OE

Hi all, I have a problem with vxvm volume which is mirror with two disks. when i am try to increase file system, it is throwing an ERROR: can not allocate 5083938 blocks, ERROR: can not able to run vxassist on this volume. Please find a sutable solutions. Thanks and Regards B. Nageswar... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: nageswarb
0 Replies

3. AIX

Basic Filesystem / Physical Volume / Logical Volume Check

Hi! Can anyone help me on how I can do a basic check on the Unix filesystems / physical volumes and logical volumes? What items should I check, like where do I look at in smit? Or are there commands that I should execute? I need to do this as I was informed by IBM that there seems to be... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: chipahoys
1 Replies

4. Solaris

ZFS and SVM - volume management

pupp, thanks for the information. but is its integrated volume management better than SVM that we use (with ufs i believe)? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: StarSol
2 Replies

5. Solaris

RAID manager or veritas volume manager

Can somebody kindly help me to determine which one i should choose to better manipulate OS volume. RAID manager or veritas volume manager? Any critical differences between those two? Thanks in advance. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: beginningDBA
5 Replies

6. Solaris

Mount A ZFS volume

Is there any way i can mount a zfs volume using snapshot or some other means ? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: fugitive
2 Replies

7. Solaris

removing the filesystem from Veritas Volume Manager

Hi All, recently i had the project. Got 2 server, one is Mercury, and another is Procyon. two server was attached to EMC Box and use the Veritas Filesystem. My question is, 1. Is it possible first remove the filesystem(/u03,/u04) from Veritas in Procyon, no effect on the data? we still... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: SmartAntz
5 Replies

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

VERITAS Volume Manager - mirror a disk/volume

I have a machine (5.10 Generic_142900-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210) that we are upgrading the storage and my task is to mirror what is already on the machine to the new disk. I have the disk, it is labeled and ready but I am not sure of the next steps to mirror the existing diskgroup and... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rookieuxixsa
1 Replies

9. Solaris

Delete zfs dump volume

Hi guys, how do you delete a zfs dump volume ? Thanks for your help. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cjashu
2 Replies
filesystem(7)						 Miscellaneous Information Manual					     filesystem(7)

NAME
filesystem - event signalling that filesystems have been mounted SYNOPSIS
filesystem [ENV]... DESCRIPTION
The filesystem event is generated by the mountall(8) daemon after it has mounted all filesystems listed in fstab(5). mountall(8) emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so in parallel with other activity. EXAMPLE
A service that wishes to be running once filesystems are mounted might use: start on filesystem SEE ALSO
mounting(7) mounted(7) virtual-filesystems(7) local-filesystems(7) remote-filesystems(7) all-swaps(7) mountall 2009-12-21 filesystem(7)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 09:24 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy