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Old 03-14-2011
ZFS

what are all the advantages of ZFS comparing to UFS SVM

what is the use of creating file system in a file system in ZFS
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Old 03-14-2011
I can give you two reasons I switched to ZFS over a year ago:
  1. Reliability: ZFS file systems are more reliable in a system crash than UFS. I had a system crash due to a power failure recently. When I powered up the system, it started immediately without fsck.
  2. Ease of configuration/maintenance: With ZFS, creating a mirrored boot drive is as easy as: zfs create mirror c0t0d0 c1t0d0. With UFS SVM, you have to name your metadevices and then create the mirror. With ZFS filesystems, you only need to remember two commands: zpool, zfs


HTH
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Old 03-14-2011
zfs concept

if we create file system with in a file system like zfs create pool/test1/test2 and if we look at df -h it will show all the three that is pool test1 and test2 with same memory size. whats the use of that and what is the concept behind that.


thanks in advance
dinu
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Old 03-15-2011
reusing disk

once we make zpool from newly added disk can we reuse it for UFS?

thanks in advance
dinu
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Old 03-15-2011
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Originally Posted by dinu
once we make zpool from newly added disk can we reuse it for UFS?

thanks in advance
dinu
Sure. But you must remove the disk from the zpool first.

HTH
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Old 03-15-2011
yeah i did but once i tried to do partition instead of starting cylinder it showed as sector
why this is happening
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