file systems

coal-fire-ice · 07-25-2005, 01:43 PM

i have installed and have an operational version of solaris 10 on an intel system, but am not familiar with its file systems. i need to know what file system i have used, and whether it is one that pools all the hdds in my pc.

jlliagre · 07-25-2005, 01:59 PM

what do you mean with "one that pools all the hdds" ?

Solaris native filesystem is ufs, if this what you asked for ...

zerg4141 · 07-25-2005, 02:10 PM

yes, Solaris 10 comes with the ZFS file system, which is able to "pool" multiple hard disks together into one virtual file system. Every time you add a hard drive and format it with ZFS, it will simply add space to your existing file system and whatever partition you choose. Similar to LVM, but a little more advanced.

coal-fire-ice · 07-25-2005, 03:14 PM

thanks, that was what i wanted to know

jlliagre · 07-25-2005, 03:51 PM

Unfortunately zfs is not yet there.

Pooling disks, a.k.a (software) raid can be done with Solaris Volume Manager: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816...anpiehf?a=view

coal-fire-ice · 07-25-2005, 03:54 PM

oh, ok, thanks