This Easy Visual-Guide Simply Show How-to Install the Solaris Z File-System (ZFS) on Linux Ubuntu 12.10 Amd64 Quantal.
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.
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Download the Solaris Porting Layer Source
- Double-Click on Archive and Extract Into /tmp
- Open Terminal Window
- Installing Solaris Portage System
sudo su
cd /tmp/spl*
./configure
make
make install
- Installing ZFS Required Packages
apt-add-repository ppa:zfs-native/stable
apt-get update
apt-get install libnvpair1 zlib1g-dev uuid-dev
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Download Z File-System Source
- Double-Click on Archive and Extract Into /tmp
- Installing Z File System
cd /tmp/zfs*
./configure
make
make install
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Getting-Started with ZFS on Linux
- Eventually Set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH Env Variable
nano /etc/bash.bashrc
Inserting:export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
Ctrl+x to Save and ExitLoad New SetUp with:
source /etc/bash.bashrc
