ZFS on CentOS

First we need to add the ZFS on Linux repository to our system by installing a zfs-release package as shown below: $ sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://archive.zfsonlinux.org/epel/zfs-release-1-3.el6.noarch.rpm $ sudo yum install zfs Once, zfs has been installed, we can create a storage pool. There’re many RAID configuration to choose from, and I’m not going to get into it. However, if you want to learn more, you can read this ZFS Administration article which explains in great detail about ZFS RAID(Z). ...

October 8, 2013 · 1 min · 144 words · kenno

Changing ZFS pool to use disk ID instead of disk assignment

This what I have: # zpool status pool: tank state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 sdb ONLINE 0 0 0 sdc ONLINE 0 0 0 sdd ONLINE 0 0 0 To convert the pool to use disk’s ID instead of device files such as /dev/sda, we need to export the storage pool. ...

September 20, 2013 · 1 min · 162 words · kenno