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ZFS Deduplication

Jeff Bonwick talks about ZFS Deduplication: You knew this day was coming: ZFS now has built-in deduplication. If you already know what dedup is and why you want it, you can skip the next couple of sections. For everyone else, let’s start with a little background. Read more about it at http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/en_US/entry/zfs_dedup.

Howto: Mount New File System To Running Solaris 10 Zone

I recently came across the need to mount a new file system to a Solaris 10 non-global zone without rebooting the actual zone. There are other ways to accomplish this same task but most of the solutions I’ve found required rebooting the non-global zone. Unfortunately, we could not take an outage by rebooting the non-global […]