james' blog

With the capabilities that ZFS brings to the table, I’m beginning to think that OpenSolaris just might make a better CIFS server than Windows. Sun has built CIFS support into the kernel, which helps with some of the interoperability challenges faced with Samba in a mixed Windows/*nix environment. Here’s how to set it [...]

During the install, OpenSolaris creates a ZFS pool, called rpool, and installs to it.  Let’s set up two hard drives for redundancy (i.e., RAID-1).

Before (note that rpool consists of a single drive):

james@opensolaris:~# zpool status
pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:

NAME [...]