Tuesday, October 30, 2012

How-to Install and Getting-Started with ZFS File-System on Linux Fedora 16 Gnome 3 64bit Easy Visual-Guide

This Easy Visual-Guide Simply Show How-to Install the Solaris Z File-System (ZFS) from Source on Linux Fedora 16 Gnome 3 64bit.

With ZFS everything you Find Complicated about Managing File Systems and Volumes Is Gone: you Do Not have Any More to format, newfs, mount, edit /etc/vfstab, fsck, growfs, metadb, metainit...

The Solaris ZFS File System is a Revolutionary file system that fundamentally Changes the Way file systems are administered.

ZFS is a Reliable File-System that Use the Copy-on-write Update Model so to Ensures that its Data is always Consistent on disk.

ZFS uses the Concept of Storage Pools to manage physical storage Instead to Rely on a Physical Device.

ZFS Eliminate Volume Management altogether. Instead of forcing you to create Virtualized Volumes, ZFS Aggregate Devices Into a Storage Pool. So File Systems Are No Longer Constrained to Individual Devices, Allowing them to Share Disk Space with All File Systems in the Pool. You No Longer Need to Predetermine the Size of a File System, As File Systems Grow Automatically within the Disk. When New Storage is Added, All File Systems within the Pool can Immediately Use the Additional Disk Space.

ZFS on Linux
  1. Open Terminal Window
    Linux Fedora16-17 Gnome 3  Open   Terminal
  2. Install ZFS Required Packages
    yum install gcc kernel-devel zlib-devel libuuid-devel
  3. Download the Solaris Porting Layer Source

    Latest spl.tar.gz Release
  4. Double-Click on Archive and Extract Spl Into /tmp
    KDE Extract Spl Source
  5. Installing Solaris Portage System
    sudo su
    cd /tmp/spl*
    ./configure
    make
    make install
  6. Installing the Z File System
    yum install zfs-fuse

    Instead to Install the ZFS Directly from Source on Fedora

    Installing ZFS from Source on Fedora
  7. Getting-Started Quickly with ZFS on Fedora

    Fedora ZFS Quick-Start Guide