ZFS is a beautiful thing
ZFS is a beautiful thing. This could be the next generation of NAS servers. Now if only they would support 3ware disk controllers which are very good controllers for handling large numbers of disks which is exactly what ZFS likes, just keep adding cheap disks to the pool.
- http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/whatis/
- http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/intro/
- http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/zfs_learning_center.jsp
- http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1619/talking-storage-systems-with-suns-zfs-team
- Lots of other useful zfs useful links.
In smary — you only need *two* commands to manage things — zpool and zfs. Nice…
And with solaris 10 you get dtrace. Very handy.