ZFS gives us the ability to move data with ZFS send and receive. This can be used to combine snapshots, create full or incremental backups, or replicate data between servers on your LAN or even over the WAN. Local Backup with Send This is very simple, simply perform a send…
Adventures in ZFS: Solaris 11.1 Share Properties
In Solaris 11.1 Oracle decided to change the way that they stored filesystem share information. I personally loved the change, but that was without understanding what the change really was. For more information on how to enable NFS exports see my previous article here. Setup Our Environment Everything we are…
Adventures in ZFS: NFS Exports on Solaris 10 and 11
So with ZFS you really have two ways of configuring your NFS exports, you can do it the old fashioned way (read: /etc/dfs/dfstab and share command). Or the super-duper easy method… Use ZFS metadata, and allow ZFS to configure the export for you. The reason why you might choose this…
Adventures in ZFS: Deletion of a Recursive Snapshot Set
Quite often I will find it necessary to create a recursive snapshot over a large number of ZFS file systems. In this case, I find that frequently have little long term need for them, and need a quick and easy way of disposing of the snapshots created without spending large…
Oracle Linux 6: Create an OCFS2 Cluster and Filesystem
Today we are going to go through the process of creating a clustered file system on a pair of Oracle Linux 6.3 nodes. This exercise is not very resource intensive. I am using two VMs each with 1GB of RAM a single CPU and a shared virtual disk file in…