ZFS ARC can consume a lot of RAM. It'll pretty much use all it can, and it usually does. A friend of mine commented that having no free RAM available was a strange idea. He didn't like the thought of those resources being taken. Heres a little analogy I thought up to explain why the ARC using your available RAM is good..
Imagine you have a fridge (your RAM), down the road is a shop selling a variety of food and you can get it all for free - the only cost is the time it takes you to walk down th…
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Added by Andrew Browne on October 21, 2009 at 6:27am —
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Here I include a great
link to squeeze out Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris as a sysadmin, inlcuding last features like crossbow. Please share it in your communities, and in your tech meetings
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Added by Eze Singer on June 25, 2009 at 1:46pm —
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El día 27 de abril de 2009, tuvo lugar en la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán la presentación de Juan Daniel Perez, Sun Campus Ambassador, sobre OpenSolaris y ZFS.
La concurrencia fue masiva, asistieron 115 personas, desbordando la capacidad de la sala de audiovisuales.
Durante un poco más de dos horas, se dieron a conocer las principales características de OpenSolaris, y se expuso a ZFS como un sistema de archivos innovador y novedoso. La charla fue clara, dinámica, didáctica y entretenida; hu…
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Added by Flavia Larrubia on June 3, 2009 at 3:48pm —
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Mostanaba elkezdtem foglalkozni a zfsel, es megtetszet.
A temaban
NagyZ blogja rengeteg segitseget nyujtott.
Eloszor is, qemuban telepitett 0906 svn 111a verziot hasznaltam, de 0811-ben is valtozatlanul ugyanigy van minden.
Mivel ez egy tesztkornyezet, a teszteket egy, a rpoolon letrehozott volumeon vegzem:
ixc@opensolaris:~$ pfexec zfs create rpool/snap_test
A letrejott snap_test-et bealitom h a home konyvtaramba legyen mountolv…
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Added by David Roka on April 28, 2009 at 1:22pm —
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I installed OpenSolaris today as a VirtualBox client following the instructions given in [1]. I am primarily a Linux guy so I don't really know what to expect from OpenSolaris. Is it Solaris with an opensourced kernel, a cross between the GNU/Linux world and Solaris or something completely different? We will see.
My primary reason for install OpenSolaris is to play with ZFS. Having worked with ZFS in a production environment for about year, I recently started looking into how ZFS actually works…
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Added by Marc Moreau on April 25, 2009 at 10:35am —
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ZFS文件系统是Sun公司开发的第一个128位的具有革命意义的文件系统,目前在FreeBSD及Mac OS X等Unix系统上已经引入了ZFS文件系统。
由于Solaris的CDDL开源协议和Linux的GPL开源协议不兼容,所以ZFS一直没有在Linux上直接实现。但是人们仍可以从 opensolaris.org上下载ZFS的源代码,而在Linux上可以通过ZFS-FUSE在不违反版权声明的情况下使用ZFS。
目前ZFS-FUSE的最新版本是0.5.0,相关博客:http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/。
在Ubuntu8.10上安装zfs-fuse 0.5.0的过程如下:
1. 安装使用zfs-fuse所需要的包
sudo apt-get install build-essential libfuse-dev libaio-dev zlib1g-dev scons
2. 下载zfs-fuse 的源代码并解压
(1)可以使用wget命令下载或直接下载:
wget http://download.berlios.de/zfs-fuse/zfs-f…
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Added by Hai-Ou Jiang on April 17, 2009 at 11:44pm —
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At work I have a Dell PowerVault 715N storage unit. It's a 1U NAS with four 120GB IDE drives at 7200RPM, with 1 GB of RAM and a Pentium III clocked at around 1GHz. It's headless and has a serial port and two Intel-based NICs. It's currently running Fedora Core 2.
For whatever reason, Solaris doesn't have Serial port A activated by default, so I had to go in and add a serial connection for 'tip' to use. I basically followed the guide here:…
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Added by Lincoln Bryant on April 1, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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Para los interesados en conocer el nuevo desarrollo de Open Solaris y Sun Microsystem, un dato a destacar es su sistema de archivos (ZFS ò Zettabyte File System)
El anuncio oficial de ZFS se produjo en Septiembre del 2004, El código fuente del producto final se integró en la rama principal de desarrollo de Solaris el 31 de octubre del 2005 y fue lanzado el 16 de noviembre de 2005 como parte del build 27 de OpenSolaris.
ZFS fue diseñado e implementado por un equipo de Sun liderado por Jeff Bonw…
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Added by Ma. Katherine Cancelado Carreño on February 21, 2009 at 8:34pm —
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Brendan Gregg made an unusual discovery, shouting a HD produces pikes of latency. We'll see sound proof data centers now? Another point to solid-sta…
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Added by Silveira Neto on January 3, 2009 at 5:32am —
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I attended Solaris Install Fest at SRM University and I was introduced to Solaris Operating System and its architecture. Mr. Shiv Kumar Ganesh, Sun Campus ambassador, SRM University started the fest with the basics of Solaris Operating system and he demonstrated us on how to install the OS on our laptops. Let me consolidate some of the discussions that we had on those sessions. Solaris is an operating system that provides a rich, coherent platform for building and running applications. I was ama…
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Added by V.Santhosh on November 30, 2008 at 11:30pm —
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sorry, saya jawab seadanya dulu yah, versi lengkap tentang Solaris ZFS sedang dibuat jadi artikel.
Q: Apa sih yang menyebabkan zfs dikatakan filesystem yang cepat?
A: ini cepat dalam hal apa? read ato write?
ZFS read lebih cepat:
- karena dia pake algoritma ARC yang bisa memprediksi data yang akan dibaca.
- karena dia pake COW (lihat penjelasan dibawah)
- pada pool standar, ZFS pake dynamic striping, jadi data yang ditulis akan disebar kebeberapa disks.
sehingga kalo baca diambil dari be…
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Added by Achmad Mardiansyah on November 6, 2008 at 3:00am —
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