A few days ago someone contacted me with an interesting issue with regards to the ZFS automatic snapshots, facilitatedby the time slider service. The Situation OpenSolaris machine with zpool exported. Time slider was working prior to export. Solaris 11 Express fresh install with zpool imported. The Symptoms Basically the core…
Adventures in ZFS: Faulted Cache Devices
We recently had an issue with Crucial M4 Solid State Disks when using them with ZFS on Solaris 11 Express (snv_151a). Basically the disks were showing a whole bunch of write errors and had been “FAULTED” by ZFS. Now to make this problem even worse when we tried to zfs…
So You Want to Learn ZFS Part Three
This is the final part in the “So You Want to Learn ZFS” series. In Part One we discussed the reasons why you should be investigating ZFS if you are not already. Part Two highlighted some of the differences from a usability perspective of Solaris versus a more traditional Linux…
So You Want to Learn ZFS Part Two
In my previous article we discussed the main reasons that you ought to be investigating ZFS as a storage platform for your organization. In this article we will be documenting some of the major pain points that people have when giving Solaris a shot. One common theme that you will…