zfs discuss - Mar 2013 - What would be the best tutorial cum reference doc for ZFS

as used on Illumos?

I''ve seen a few tutorials written by people who obviously are very 
action oriented; afterwards you find you have worn your keyboard down a 
bit and not learned a lot at all, at least not in the sense of 
understanding what zfs is and what it does and why things are the way 
they are.

I''m looking for something that would make me afterwards understand
what,
say, commands like  zpool import ... or zfs send ... actually do, and 
some idea as to why, so I can begin to understand ZFS in a way that 
allows me to make educated guesses on how to perform tasks I haven''t 
tried before.
And mostly without having to ask around for days on end.

For SOME part of zfs I''m already there, but only for the things I had
to
do more than twice or so while managing the Swedish lab at Sun Micro.

> From: zfs-discuss-bounces@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-
> bounces@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Hans J. Albertsson
> 
> I''m looking for something that would make me afterwards understand
what,
> say, commands like  zpool import ... or zfs send ... actually do, and
> some idea as to why, so I can begin to understand ZFS in a way that
> allows me to make educated guesses on how to perform tasks I
haven''t
> tried before.
man zpool
man zfs
And the ZFS Best Practices Guide
And the ZFS Evil (I forget what it''s called, performance tuning? just
search for evil, you''ll find it.)

But almost everything is literally in the man pages.

Hi Hans,

Start with the ZFS Admin Guide, here:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E29007/index.html

Or, start with your specific questions.

Thanks, Cindy

On 03/19/13 03:30, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> as used on Illumos?
>
> I''ve seen a few tutorials written by people who obviously are very
> action oriented; afterwards you find you have worn your keyboard down a
> bit and not learned a lot at all, at least not in the sense of
> understanding what zfs is and what it does and why things are the way
> they are.
>
> I''m looking for something that would make me afterwards understand
what,
> say, commands like zpool import ... or zfs send ... actually do, and
> some idea as to why, so I can begin to understand ZFS in a way that
> allows me to make educated guesses on how to perform tasks I
haven''t
> tried before.
> And mostly without having to ask around for days on end.
>
> For SOME part of zfs I''m already there, but only for the things I
had to
> do more than twice or so while managing the Swedish lab at Sun Micro.
>
>
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There are links to videos and other materials here:
http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/ZFS

Not as organized as I''d like...


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Hans J. Albertsson <
hans.j.albertsson@branneriet.se> wrote:
> as used on Illumos?
>
> I''ve seen a few tutorials written by people who obviously are very
action
> oriented; afterwards you find you have worn your keyboard down a bit and
> not learned a lot at all, at least not in the sense of understanding what
> zfs is and what it does and why things are the way they are.
>
> I''m looking for something that would make me afterwards understand
what,
> say, commands like  zpool import ... or zfs send ... actually do, and some
> idea as to why, so I can begin to understand ZFS in a way that allows me to
> make educated guesses on how to perform tasks I haven''t tried
before.
> And mostly without having to ask around for days on end.
>
> For SOME part of zfs I''m already there, but only for the things I
had to
> do more than twice or so while managing the Swedish lab at Sun Micro.
>
>
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