Solaris 10 5/08 and zfs on JackRabbit

By joe

July 2, 2008 - 2 minutes read - 273 words

Yeah, it works.

# df -h
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0        7.9G   3.3G   4.5G    43%    /
/devices                 0K     0K     0K     0%    /devices
ctfs                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/contract
proc                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
swap                    15G   896K    15G     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
objfs                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/object
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
                       7.9G   3.3G   4.5G    43%    /lib/libc.so.1
fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
swap                    15G   112K    15G     1%    /tmp
swap                    15G    32K    15G     1%    /var/run
/dev/dsk/c0d0s3        3.9G   4.0M   3.9G     1%    /small/home
/dev/dsk/c0d0s7        394G    65M   390G     1%    /export/home
tank                   9.4T    24K   9.4T     1%    /tank
tank/big               9.4T    24K   9.4T     1%    /export/big
 zfs list
NAME       USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
tank       120K  9.35T  24.5K  /tank
tank/big  24.5K  9.35T  24.5K  /export/big

Looking for some benchmark tools now. Installation was ok, though I thought that the crash after the driver installation was, well, an interesting turn. But it works, so I won’t complain too much. smc was a pleasure. Well, no. First time it took 30 minutes before I decided to reboot the box (after the driver install crash). Then after that, in shades of a Redhat-ism, it refused to correctly label the drive. The drive demanded an EFI label. smc wasn’t able to do that (wasn’t obvious after poking at it). Had to do it by hand with format -e. And that still didn’t work. Gave up, googled for creating a zfs file system. WAAAYYY too much marketing drivel on zfs. WAAAYYY too many fan-boi’s out there. WAAAYY too little useful information. This one was helpful, as was this. Now I am seeking out compilers so I can build bonnie++ and IOzone among others.