Thursday, September 15, 2011

How to Create and manipulate zpools


Zpools are the underlying device layers for zfs filesystems. Mirrors, RAIDs and Concatenated Storage are defined here.
For pooling devices, zpools can be:
- a mirror
- a RAIDz with single or double parity
- a concatenated/striped storage
This work sheet has been done with Solaris 10 running on a virtual Parallels machine. The disks are not real, they are virtualized by Parallels, giving 8 GB to each disk. Not much, but enough to play with.
First we will try to look up the disks accessible by our system:

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