[hobbit] ZFS Monitoring Script

Rich Smrcina rsmrcina at wi.rr.com
Thu Apr 12 18:17:17 CEST 2007


Sounds pretty cool!

Mike Rowell wrote:
> It's a bit of both...
> 
> ZFS is a file system type that can be applied to a raw device to create
> a filesystem, however to get that you need to put the raw device into a
> zfs pool which is what the software part does.
> 
> It's build directly into the kernel so operates in kernel space, but
> also has a lot of dynamic qualities such as compression that can be
> enabled and disabled at will, good if you've got a filesystem with a lot
> of logs in it etc.
> 
> The good thing is that there is no such concept as inodes in zfs so you
> can have as many files as you want without worrying about hitting inodes
> maximums. 
> 
> Mike

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