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Operating Systems Solaris Install Solaris 11 with ZFS Post 302927489 by Peasant on Wednesday 3rd of December 2014 11:21:43 AM

12-03-2014

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You have several choices :

Raid controllers if you have - this will not take advantage of zfs filesystem features, but will simplify administration by lowering the number of devices on the OS layer depending of the raid protection chosen.

Disk slices for rpool(s), mirroring between two physical disks, or even third as a hot spare - this will take advantage of zfs filesystem features and will leave other slices to be used for other purpose.

Depending of the use, if you plan Oracle VM, you might consider using SVM mirroring/raid of slices with single md device presented to ldom which runs rpool on top - this will not take advantage of zfs features but will provide less administration overhead in case of disk failure (remirroring of all disk slices will be done with couple of commands on hypervisor)

I would advise against using ZVOLs as backend devices.

I've been using option 2 and 3 depending, not using controllers.

Hope that helps

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zstreamdump(8)						  System Administration Commands					    zstreamdump(8)

NAME

       zstreamdump - filter data in zfs send stream

SYNOPSIS

       zstreamdump [-C] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

       The  zstreamdump  utility  reads  from the output of the zfs send command, then displays headers and some statistics from that output.  See
       zfs(1M).

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -C

	   Suppress the validation of checksums.

       -v

	   Verbose. Dump all headers, not only begin and end headers.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWzfsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Uncommitted		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       zfs(1M), attributes(5)

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