It should come as no surprise to readers of this blog that I really like ZFS. Personally I think it is one of the biggest developments in file system design in many many years. One place where I’ve started to use it recently on my own home server is to make instant and consistent backups […]
In their latest release Nexenta added support for ZFS boot. I also wrote an article about how to clone and boot another ZFS file system. The process is quite simple but it still contains a number of steps.
To make things even easier I decided to write a script to automate the process. This can be […]
Esoteric Curio has a great article about PostgreSQL and ZFS.
However, I’m impatient. So, I’m going to make it work myself. Using the power of ZFS, I’m going to snap my PITR slave and clone it into a “disposable” “point-in-time” copy. This is really useful for running heavy reports.
I recently wrote about the newly released NexentaCP. One of the new great features is the integrated ZFS boot in the installer. You can now get a ZFS boot capable system with no work at all.
The default installation of Nexenta will create a ZFS pool called syspool and your root file system will be called […]
Thanks to a post by Graeme Mathieson in his fabulous blog Notes from a messy desk I found out that VMware has ported their virtualization product to OSX. It is called Fusion and currently they are running a open beta program. Since I use a MacBook for all my desktop work at home I thought […]
One of many great features introduced with Solaris 10 zfs is probably one of the greatest. Once you have learned to use it you will be thinking why it took so long for someone to figure it out.
zfs provides you with end-to-end checksums of all data stored in the filesystem. It also provides you with […]
