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What's New in ZFS?This section summarizes new features in the ZFS file system. ZFS and Flash Installation SupportSolaris 10 10/09 Release: In this Solaris release, you can set up a JumpStart profile to identify a flash archive of a ZFS root pool. For more information, see Installing a ZFS Root File System (Flash Archive Installation). ZFS User and Group QuotasSolaris 10 10/09 Release: In previous Solaris releases, you could apply quotas and reservations to ZFS file systems to manage and reserve space. In this Solaris release, you can set a quota on the amount of space consumed by files that are owned by a particular user or group. You might consider setting user and group quotas in an environment with a large number of users or groups. You can set user or group quotas by using the zfs userquota and zfs groupquota properties as follows:
You can display a user's or group's current quota setting as follows:
Display general quota information as follows:
You can display individual user or group space usage by viewing the userused@user and groupused@group properties as follows:
For more information about setting user quotas, see Setting ZFS Quotas and Reservations. ZFS ACL Pass Through Inheritance for Execute PermissionSolaris 10 10/09 Release: In previous Solaris releases, you could apply ACL inheritance so that all files are created with 0664 or 0666 permissions. If you want to optionally include the execute bit from the file creation mode into the inherited ACL, you can use the pass through inheritance for execute permission in this release. If aclinherit=passthrough-x is enabled on a ZFS dataset, you can include execute permission for an output file that is generated from cc or gcc tools. If the inherited ACL does not include execute permission, then the executable output from the compiler won't be executable until you use the chmod command to change the file's permissions. For more information, see Example 8–12. ZFS Property EnhancementsSolaris 10/09 Release: The following ZFS file system enhancements are included in these releases.
ZFS Log Device RecoverySolaris 10 10/09 Release: In this release, ZFS identifies intent log failures in the zpool status command. FMA reports these errors as well. Both ZFS and FMA describe how to recover from an intent log failure. For example, if the system shuts down abruptly before synchronous write operations are committed to a pool with a separate log device, you will see messages similar to the following:
You will need to resolve the log device failure in the following ways:
If you want to recover from this error without replacing log device failure, you can clear the error with the zpool clear command. In this scenario, the pool will operate in degraded mode and the log records will be written to the main pool until the separate log device is replaced. Consider using mirrored log devices to reduce the log device failure scenario. Using Cache Devices in Your ZFS Storage PoolSolaris 10 10/09 Release: In this Solaris release, you can create pool and specify cache devices, which are used to cache storage pool data. Cache devices provide an additional layer of caching between main memory and disk. Using cache devices provide the greatest performance improvement for random read-workloads of mostly static content. One or more cache devices can specified when the pool is created. For example:
After cache devices are added, they gradually fill with content from main memory. Depending on the size of your cache device, it could take over an hour for them to fill. Capacity and reads can be monitored by using the zpool iostat command as follows:
Cache devices can be added or removed from the pool after the pool is created. For more information, see Creating a ZFS Storage Pool with Cache Devices and Example 4–4. Zone Migration in a ZFS EnvironmentSolaris 10 5/09 Release: This release extends support for migrating zones in a ZFS environment with Live Upgrade. For more information, see Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Migrate or Upgrade a System With Zones (Solaris 10 5/09 and Solaris 10 10/09). For a list of known issues with this release, see the Solaris 10 5/09 release notes. ZFS Installation and Boot SupportSolaris 10 10/08 Release: This release provides the ability to install and boot a ZFS root file system. You can use the initial installation option or the JumpStart feature to install a ZFS root file system. Or, you can use the Live Upgrade feature to migrate a UFS root file system to a ZFS root file system. ZFS support for swap and dump devices is also provided. For more information, see Chapter 5, Installing and Booting a ZFS Root File System. For a list of known issues with this release, go to the following site: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zfs/boot For a list of known issues with this release, see the Solaris 10 10/08 release notes. Rolling Back a Dataset Without UnmountingSolaris 10 10/08 Release: This release provides the ability to rollback a dataset without unmounting it first. This feature means that zfs rollback -f option is no longer needed to force an umount operation. The -f option is no longer supported, and is ignored if specified. Enhancements to the zfs send CommandSolaris 10 10/08 Release: This release includes the following enhancements to the zfs send command.
For more information, see Sending and Receiving Complex ZFS Snapshot Streams. ZFS Quotas and Reservations for File System Data OnlySolaris 10 10/08 Release: In addition to the existing ZFS quota and reservation features, this release includes dataset quotas and reservations that do not include descendents, such as snapshots and clones, in the space consumption accounting.
For example, you can set a 10 Gbyte refquota for studentA that sets a 10-Gbyte hard limit of referenced space. For additional flexibility, you can set a 20-Gbyte quota that allows you to manage studentA's snapshots.
For more information, see Setting ZFS Quotas and Reservations. ZFS Storage Pool PropertiesSolaris 10 10/08 Release: ZFS storage pool properties were introduced in an earlier release. This release provides for additional property information. For example:
For a description of these properties, see Table 4–1.
ZFS Command History Enhancements (zpool history)Solaris 10 10/08 Release: The zpool history command has been enhanced to provide the following new features:
For more information about using the zpool history command, see Identifying Problems in ZFS. Upgrading ZFS File Systems (zfs upgrade)Solaris 10 10/08 Release: The zfs upgrade command is included in this release to provide future ZFS file system enhancements to existing file systems. ZFS storage pools have a similar upgrade feature to provide pool enhancements to existing storage pools. For example:
Note – File systems that are upgraded and any streams created from those upgraded file systems by the zfs send command are not accessible on systems that are running older software releases. ZFS Delegated AdministrationSolaris 10 10/08 Release: In this release, you can delegate fine-grained permissions to perform ZFS administration tasks to non-privileged users. You can use the zfs allow and zfs unallow commands to grant and remove permissions. You can modify the ability to use delegated administration with the pool's delegation property. For example:
By default, the delegation property is enabled. For more information, see Chapter 9, ZFS Delegated Administration and zfs(1M). Setting Up Separate ZFS Logging DevicesSolaris 10 10/08 Release: The ZFS intent log (ZIL) is provided to satisfy POSIX requirements for synchronous transactions. For example, databases often require their transactions to be on stable storage devices when returning from a system call. NFS and other applications can also use fsync() to ensure data stability. By default, the ZIL is allocated from blocks within the main storage pool. However, better performance might be possible by using separate intent log devices in your ZFS storage pool, such as with NVRAM or a dedicated disk. Log devices for the ZFS intent log are not related to database log files. You can set up a ZFS logging device when the storage pool is created or after the pool is created. For examples of setting up log devices, see Creating a ZFS Storage Pool with Log Devices and Adding Devices to a Storage Pool. You can attach a log device to an existing log device to create a mirrored log device. This operation is identical to attaching a device in a unmirrored storage pool. Consider the following points when determining whether setting up a ZFS log device is appropriate for your environment:
Creating Intermediate ZFS DatasetsSolaris 10 10/08 Release: You can use the -p option with the zfs create, zfs clone, and zfs rename commands to quickly create a non-existent intermediate dataset, if it doesn't already exist. For example, create ZFS datasets (users/area51) in the datab storage pool.
If the intermediate dataset exists during the create operation, the operation completes successfully. Properties specified apply to the target dataset, not to the intermediate datasets. For example:
The intermediate dataset is created with the default mount point. Any additional properties are disabled for the intermediate dataset. For example:
For more information, see zfs(1M). ZFS Hotplugging EnhancementsSolaris 10 10/08 Release: In this release, ZFS more effectively responds to devices that are removed and provides a mechanism to automatically identify devices that are inserted with the following enhancements:
For more information, see zpool(1M). Recursively Renaming ZFS Snapshots (zfs rename -r)Solaris 10 10/08 Release: You can recursively rename all descendent ZFS snapshots by using the zfs rename -r command. For example, snapshot a set of ZFS file systems.
Then, rename the snapshots the following day.
Snapshots are the only dataset that can be renamed recursively. For more information about snapshots, see Overview of ZFS Snapshots and this blog entry that describes how to create rolling snapshots: http://blogs.sun.com/mmusante/entry/rolling_snapshots_made_easy GZIP Compression is Available for ZFSSolaris 10 10/08 Release: In this Solaris release, you can set gzip compression on ZFS file systems in addition to lzjb compression. You can specify compression as gzip, the default, or gzip-N, where N equals 1 through 9. For example:
For more information about setting ZFS properties, see Setting ZFS Properties. Storing Multiple Copies of ZFS User DataSolaris 10 10/08 Release: As a reliability feature, ZFS file system metadata is automatically stored multiple times across different disks, if possible. This feature is known as ditto blocks. In this Solaris release, you can specify that multiple copies of user data is also stored per file system by using the zfs set copies command. For example:
Available values are 1, 2, or 3. The default value is 1. These copies are in addition to any pool-level redundancy, such as in a mirrored or RAID-Z configuration. The benefits of storing multiple copies of ZFS user data are as follows:
Depending on the allocation of the ditto blocks in the storage pool, multiple copies might be placed on a single disk. A subsequent full disk failure might cause all ditto blocks to be unavailable. You might consider using ditto blocks when you accidentally create a non-redundant pool and when you need to set data retention policies. For a detailed description of how setting copies on a system with a single-disk pool or a multiple-disk pool might impact overall data protection, see this blog: http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/zfs_copies_and_data_protection For more information about setting ZFS properties, see Setting ZFS Properties. Improved zpool status OutputSolaris 10 8/07 Release: You can use the zpool status -v command to display a list of files with persistent errors. Previously, you had to use the find -inum command to identify the filenames from the list of displayed inodes. For more information about displaying a list of files with persistent errors, see Repairing a Corrupted File or Directory. ZFS and Solaris iSCSI ImprovementsSolaris 10 8/07 Release: In this Solaris release, you can create a ZFS volume as a Solaris iSCSI target device by setting the shareiscsi property on the ZFS volume. This method is a convenient way to quickly set up a Solaris iSCSI target. For example:
After the iSCSI target is created, set up the iSCSI initiator. For information about setting up a Solaris iSCSI initiator, see Chapter 14, Configuring Solaris iSCSI Targets and Initiators (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems. For more information about managing a ZFS volume as an iSCSI target, see Using a ZFS Volume as a Solaris iSCSI Target. ZFS Command History (zpool history)Solaris 10 8/07 Release: In this Solaris release, ZFS automatically logs successful zfs and zpool commands that modify pool state information. For example:
This features enables you or Sun support personnel to identify the exact set of ZFS commands that was executed to troubleshoot an error scenario. You can identify a specific storage pool with the zpool history command. For example:
In this Solaris release, the zpool history command does not record user-ID, hostname, or zone-name. For more information, see ZFS Command History Enhancements (zpool history). For more information about troubleshooting ZFS problems, see Identifying Problems in ZFS. ZFS Property ImprovementsZFS xattr PropertySolaris 10 8/07 Release: You can use the xattr property to disable or enable extended attributes for a specific ZFS file system. The default value is on. For a description of ZFS properties, see Introducing ZFS Properties. ZFS canmount PropertySolaris 10 8/07 Release: The new canmount property allows you to specify whether a dataset can be mounted by using the zfs mount command. For more information, see The canmount Property. ZFS User PropertiesSolaris 10 8/07 Release: In addition to the standard native properties that can either export internal statistics or control ZFS file system behavior, ZFS supports user properties. User properties have no effect on ZFS behavior, but you can use them to annotate datasets with information that is meaningful in your environment. For more information, see ZFS User Properties. Setting Properties When Creating ZFS File SystemsSolaris 10 8/07 Release: In this Solaris release, you can set properties when you create a file system, in addition to setting properties after the file system is created. The following examples illustrate equivalent syntax:
Displaying All ZFS File System InformationSolaris 10 8/07 Release: In this Solaris release, you can use various forms of the zfs get command to display information about all datasets if you do not specify a dataset or if you do not specify all. In previous releases, all dataset information was not retreivable with the zfs get command. For example:
New zfs receive -F OptionSolaris 10 8/07 Release: In this Solaris release, you can use the new -F option to the zfs receive command to force a rollback of the file system to the most recent snapshot before doing the receive. Using this option might be necessary when the file system is modified between the time a rollback occurs and the receive is initiated. For more information, see Receiving a ZFS Snapshot. Recursive ZFS SnapshotsSolaris 10 11/06 Release: When you use the zfs snapshot command to create a file system snapshot, you can use the -r option to recursively create snapshots for all descendent file systems. In addition, using the -r option recursively destroys all descendent snapshots when a snapshot is destroyed. Recursive ZFS snapshots are created quickly as one atomic operation. The snapshots are created together (all at once) or not created at all. The benefit of atomic snapshots operations is that the snapshot data is always taken at one consistent time, even across descendent file systems. For more information, see Creating and Destroying ZFS Snapshots. Double Parity RAID-Z (raidz2)Solaris 10 11/06 Release: A redundant RAID-Z configuration can now have either single- or double-parity, which means that one or two device failures can be sustained respectively, without any data loss. You can specify the raidz2 keyword for a double-parity RAID-Z configuration. Or, you can specify the raidz or raidz1 keyword for a single-parity RAID-Z configuration. For more information, see Creating RAID-Z Storage Pools or zpool(1M). Hot Spares for ZFS Storage Pool DevicesSolaris 10 11/06 Release: The ZFS hot spares feature enables you to identify disks that could be used to replace a failed or faulted device in one or more storage pools. Designating a device as a hot spare means that if an active device in the pool fails, the hot spare automatically replaces the failed device. Or, you can manually replace a device in a storage pool with a hot spare. For more information, see Designating Hot Spares in Your Storage Pool and zpool(1M). Replacing a ZFS File System With a ZFS Clone (zfs promote)Solaris 10 11/06 Release: The zfs promote command enables you to replace an existing ZFS file system with a clone of that file system. This feature is helpful when you want to run tests on an alternative version of a file system and then, make that alternative version of the file system the active file system. For more information, see Replacing a ZFS File System With a ZFS Clone and zfs(1M). Upgrading ZFS Storage Pools (zpool upgrade)Solaris 10 6/06 Release: You can upgrade your storage pools to a newer version to take advantage of the latest features by using the zpool upgrade command. In addition, the zpool status command has been modified to notify you when your pools are running older versions. For more information, see Upgrading ZFS Storage Pools and zpool(1M). If you want to use the ZFS Administration console on a system with a pool from a previous Solaris release, make sure you upgrade your pools before using the ZFS Administration console. To see if your pools need to be upgraded, use the zpool status command. For information about the ZFS Administration console, see ZFS Web-Based Management. ZFS Backup and Restore Commands are RenamedSolaris 10 6/06 Release: In this Solaris release, the zfs backup and zfs restore commands are renamed to zfs send and zfs receive to more accurately describe their function. The function of these commands is to save and restore ZFS data stream representations. For more information about these commands, see Sending and Receiving ZFS Data. Recovering Destroyed Storage PoolsSolaris 10 6/06 Release: This release includes the zpool import -D command, which enables you to recover pools that were previously destroyed with the zpool destroy command. For more information, see Recovering Destroyed ZFS Storage Pools. ZFS is Integrated With Fault ManagerSolaris 10 6/06 Release: This release includes the integration of a ZFS diagnostic engine that is capable of diagnosing and reporting pool failures and device failures. Checksum, I/O, device, and pool errors associated with pool or device failures are also reported. The diagnostic engine does not include predictive analysis of checksum and I/O errors, nor does it include proactive actions based on fault analysis. In the event of the ZFS failure, you might see a message similar to the following from fmd:
By reviewing the recommended action, which will be to follow the more specific directions in the zpool status command, you will be able to quickly identify and resolve the failure. For an example of recovering from a reported ZFS problem, see Resolving a Missing Device. New zpool clear CommandSolaris 10 6/06 Release: This release includes the zpool clear command for clearing error counts associated with a device or the pool. Previously, error counts were cleared when a device in a pool was brought online with the zpool online command. For more information, see zpool(1M) and Clearing Storage Pool Devices. Compact NFSv4 ACL FormatSolaris 10 6/06 Release: In this release, three NFSv4 ACL formats are available: verbose, positional, and compact. The new compact and positional ACL formats are available to set and display ACLs. You can use the chmod command to set all 3 ACL formats. You can use the ls -V command to display compact and positional ACL formats and the ls -v command to display verbose ACL formats. For more information, see Setting and Displaying ACLs on ZFS Files in Compact Format, chmod(1), and ls(1). File System Monitoring Tool (fsstat)Solaris 10 6/06 Release: A new file system monitoring tool, fsstat, is available to report file system operations. Activity can be reported by mount point or by file system type. The following example shows general ZFS file system activity.
For more information, see fsstat(1M). ZFS Web-Based ManagementSolaris 10 6/06 Release: A web-based ZFS management tool is available to perform many administrative actions. With this tool, you can perform the following tasks:
You can access the ZFS Administration console through a secure web browser at the following URL:
If you type the appropriate URL and are unable to reach the ZFS Administration console, the server might not be started. To start the server, run the following command:
If you want the server to run automatically when the system boots, run the following command:
Note – You cannot use the Solaris Management Console (smc) to manage ZFS storage pools or file systems. |
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