Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Zfs zetabyte file system creating filesystems using zfs. There will be times when you would need to add a disk or disks to a solaris 10 system, and. I am hesitant about using zfs because zfs uses a lot of memory i think you can adjust this in the system file now, you can not flash install, and ufsdump and ufsrestore not longer work. Jun 10, 2012 zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Ill answer mainly on solaris and linux as i know both intimately. You could now use luupgrade or smpatch smpatch currently has issues. Although you can use solaris live upgrade to upgrade your ufs root file system to a zfs root file system, you cannot use solaris live upgrade to upgrade nonroot or shared file systems. How to offline online detach replace device in a storage pool. But then again, any answer you get on this topic will be highly opin. Oracle solaris ufs to zfs migration using live upgrade root fs. The sumwlucfg package is new starting with the solaris 10 807. Solaris live upgrade upgrading and patching you solaris 10 system with minimal.
If you choose ufs, i recommend using svm to mirror the disks not the hardware raid. Liveupgrade handles the migration of the critical filesystems, well manually migrate three other filesystems from ufs to zfs using ufsdump and ufsrestore to minimize downtime. Performance is important, but if they are off by 1020% we can bear with it, more important thing for us will be stability and snapshot feature. If youre working constantly with lots of huge data etc. I am trying to install a zfs file system on a solaris 10 machine with ufs already installed on it. Difference between solaris 10 and solaris 11 difference wiki. Im not knowledgeable enough to know the differences on disk of ufs vs. With oracle solaris 10 807, and subsequent releases, patching oracle solaris. Btrfs became stable for some workloads about 5 years ago.
The operating system will be oracle solaris 10 sunos 5. With the initial create test in the compile benchmark, the performance of zfs was over 3. A file system or filesystem is a means to organize data expected to be retained after a program terminates by providing procedures to store, retrieve and update data as well as manage the available space on the devices which contain it. Svr4 patch commands only available with an solaris 10 zone on oracle solaris 11. Booting from a zfs root file system oracle solaris zfs. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. The combination of zfs bootroot and zones can cause problems with live upgrade, if you are planning on using live upgrade.
With ix systems having released new images of freebsd reworked with their zfs on linux code that is in development to ultimately replace their existing freebsd zfs support derived from the code originally found in the illumos source tree, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the freebsd 12 performance of zfs vs. The post describes the simple procedure to find out the number of inodes used and free inodes for an ufs file system. Below is a simple live upgrade be creation and patching example. The choice of zfs or ufs for bootroot disks depends on the level of solaris. The ondisk formats used by ufs and zfs are completely different. Sun solaris 10 zfs offers blazing filesystem performance.
Solaris zfs command line solaris admin reference by ramdev published february 10, 2014 updated july 2, 2015 the zfs file system is a new kind of file system that fundamentally changes the way file systems are administered, with the below mentioned features. Ips, the new packaging and patching system, is integrated with zfs. Zfs to ufs performance comparison on day 1 bizarre. Sun solaris 10 zfs offers blazing filesystem performance the new sun file system zfs represents a previously unseen breakthrough in file system performance and management. Aug 16, 2007 more discussions in solaris 10 this discussion is archived. How to convert ufs to zfs in solaris 10 oracle community. Meanwhile, the zfs filesystem was actually the slowest with a time of 34 seconds.
How to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone roots at least solaris 10 509 use this procedure when you need to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone roots in at least the solaris 10 509 release. Zfs is fast, ufs out of the box is poorly configured in freebsd. Oracle solaris 11 includes a new system clone and disaster recovery capability called unified archives. Solaris 10 kernel patchid sequence oracle solaris blog. Solaris 11 express provides a expedient way to install, update and patch programs in the form of ips, which was not present in solaris 10. If you still have you data on the usb hd, then your best bet is to use the entire disk as the zpool. System software maintenance via packages and patches. Monitoring tools in solaris familyillumos family operating systems are second to none. Use liveupgrade to migrate from ufs to zfs with minimal. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Solaris convert a single root ufs to a root zfs mirror. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference. Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. Migrating a ufs file system to a zfs file system oracle solaris.
Hello, i am new to solaris so i apologize upfront if my questions seem trivial. Zfs is designed for large storage setups multiple disks, multiple controllers, lots of ram, lots of cpu, etc, and thats where it really shines. If booting the active be fails due to a bad patch or a configuration error, the only. Oracle took a brave decision by making zfs as default root filesystem in solaris 11 onwards. Migrating a ufs file system to a zfs file system oracle. A storage pool can contain multiple bootable datasets or zfs root file systems.
Zfs has been in production for a long time and is working towards 20 years of production usage. But we have to make sure backup everything include create zfs snapshot and splitting zfs mirror for rollback plan. System administrators can patch a system image rapidly without impacting the boot. Note using live upgrade to create new zfs boot environments requires at least the solaris 10 1008 release to be. Ufs unix file system has been the default solaris unix file system for many years. While its difficult to think of any coding project as impossible, it would be a lot of work to create any sort of inplace converter that did any better than the equivalent of backup. Jun 27, 2019 solaris 11 express provides a expedient way to install, update and patch programs in the form of ips, which was not present in solaris 10. Since zfs can handle many small files way faster than ufs, helios file. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs is really simple compared to some of the messes you could get into with svm mirrored root disks. May 14, 2014 freebsd clung to zfs and, over time, it became the most popular filesystem on the platform although ufs is still heavily used as well. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Solaris 10, solaris install, solaris partitions, solaris ufs. How to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone roots on zfs solaris 10 10 08 use this procedure when you need to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone roots on zfs. If you use the otn license free for developing, testing, prototyping, demonstrating your applications, youll have no support or updates.
If you are attempting to use solaris live upgrade from a solaris 10 release to the nevada, build 90 release, you might need to do steps similar to the following. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. Configure a box with 24 harddrives in it, first using hardware raid and ufs, then with software raid and ufs, then with zfs, and benchmark each setup. Mar 05, 2017 step by step migration ufs to zfs file system on solaris 10 1. The media contains 352 software patches that can be added.
Booting from a zfs file system differs from booting from a ufs file system. You can, however, enforce userlevel inode quotas by using ufs filesystems on zfs zvols. With solaris 11 the default filesystem should be zfs, but following the official guide i obtained with cat etcdefaultfs localufs is this an error. Solaris convert a single root ufs to a root zfs mirror 18 feb 2011 scenario. They can be used to save a state of file system at particular point of time and can later be rolled back to exactly same state. The lucreate step in a ufs environment can take significant time as a copy is made of the root.
Mar 17, 2015 solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs is really simple compared to some of the messes you could get into with svm mirrored root disks. Regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch. Been running nas4free since it split from freenas and been quite happy. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. Zfs files themselves, but my zpool and zfs commands work perfectly on the clonezillaproduced clone disk. It is much easier to upgrade to solaris 11 from opensolaris too. Jul 27, 2010 meanwhile, the zfs filesystem was actually the slowest with a time of 34 seconds. Here is the comparison of features and commands for both solaris 10 and 11.
We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Because zfs is a 128bit file system, its theoretical limits are truly mindboggling2128 bytes of storage and 264 for everything else, including file systems, snapshots, directory entries, devices, and more. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. In zfs, you will run out of inodes at the same time as you run out of space. Solaris 10 zfs essentials is the perfect guide for learning how to deploy and manage zfs file systems. Oracle solaris live upgrade is integrated with the oracle solaris zfs. Installing zfs on an existing solaris 10 install ufs. Solaris 10 edition 1106, all patches installed as of january 15, 2007. This is a brief example of migrating an existing ufsbased solaris 10 system to. Zfs zetabyte file system is the new solaris file system. Zfs is and at the same time isnt the freebsd future. As compared to solaris 10, solaris 11former opensolaris has improvement on its network stack, it can make virtualnics, using dladm. Students will have access to both sparc and x86based solaris servers to perform their labs.
Experienced solaris users may remember the old maintenance updates mu which we shipped for solaris 8 and older releases. Zfs is very well known, ported across many operating systems and still has more features than basically every other fs out there. Migrating a ufs root file system to a zfs root file system. The bsd people have been rewritting gnu userspace tools only because of the license, so having a nonbsd filesystem the heart of a unix os is certainly something they dont like a lot. Boot from the solaris failsafe or boot in single user mode from solaris install cd or network. It is accompanied by a disk partitioning scheme, typically represented as letters a, b, c with conventions about the meaning and purpose of the letters.
You can migrate a ufs file system to a zfs file system by using these commands on an oracle solaris 10 system or migrate ufs data to a zfs file system between two oracle solaris 10 systems. Apply changes whether os upgrade, patches, or other changes to that. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. In this paper, we will be taking a closer look at the tests where ufs is ahead and try to make proposition toward improving those numbers. Two 70 gb disks one for the os, second for zfs solaris 10 edition 1106, all patches installed as of january 15, 2007 create. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference and i hope it is useful. How to determine number of freeused inodes in a file system the geek diary. Creating a boot environment provides a method of copying critical file systems from an active ufs boot environment to a zfs root pool. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. The ondisk format of zfs is radically different from ufs.
Unfortunately i only have limited experience with freebsd or openbsd. Many of the t series sever models have a lot of compute power. Using oracle solaris live upgrade to migrate to a zfs. These patches ensure that you have all the latest bug fixes and new features in the release. Zfs is a combined file system and logical volume manager. It is not a beta release but a regular and fully supported release. These updates can either be a system upgrade or the application of patches. Freebsd clung to zfs and, over time, it became the most popular filesystem on the platform although ufs is still heavily used as well. How to migrate a ufs file system to a zfs file system. Sun solaris 10 zfs offers blazing filesystem performance helios. Zfs is stable, ufs is rockstable more than 20 years. Jul 02, 2015 solaris zfs command line solaris admin reference by ramdev published february 10, 2014 updated july 2, 2015 the zfs file system is a new kind of file system that fundamentally changes the way file systems are administered, with the below mentioned features. They consume no extra space in the zfs pool and can be created instantly. So zfs knowledge is must for all of the solaris administrator who is going to work on solaris 11.
All steps except the fdisk step near the end are the same for sparc systems. It includes support for high storage capacities, integration of concepts of file systems and volume management, snapshots and copy on write clones that is, an optimization strategy that allows callers who ask for resources that are indistinguishable to be given pointers to the same resource, continuous integrity. The sumwlucfg package is new starting with the solaris 10 807 release. Continuing on from the article on how to use liveupgrade to upgrade from solaris 9 to solaris 10, we now migrate our solaris 10 ufs file systems to zfs. Then you can use liveupgrade to migrate your rootfs to a. Apr 16, 2008 the solaris 10 508 patch bundle, which is now available on sunsolve ill add a blog entry about it later, provides the equivalent set of patches to the solaris 10 508 release image, but does \not\ include new packages. This procedure describes how to migrate a ufs file system to a zfs file system. Use liveupgrade to migrate from ufs to zfs with minimal downtime. Step by step migration ufs to zfs file system on solaris 10. We need a filesystem that has snapshot feature on linux for our production use. From solaris 10 onwards zfs filesystem supports root fs.
Research the relationship between solaris efi, solaris vtoc and lun size as well as ufs vs zfs to make sure you choose the proper type for your environment. Note to migrate an active ufs root file system to a zfs root pool, you must. You can also extract some of the files from the snapshot if required and not. The solaris 10 508 patch bundle, which is now available on sunsolve ill add a blog entry about it later, provides the equivalent set of patches to the solaris 10 508 release image, but does \not\ include new packages. I have worked on many volume manages like svmsolaris volume manager,vxvm veritas volume manager and lvm logical volume manager but zfs is onestep ahead compare to other volume. First alternative solaris 10 zfs migration from ufs example. All helios ub based products and tools have successfully passed performance and reliability testing using the new sun zfs file system. Differences between oracle solaris 10 and 11 for system administrators. Dec 24, 2010 zfs is designed for large storage setups multiple disks, multiple controllers, lots of ram, lots of cpu, etc, and thats where it really shines. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host.
Migrating a ufs root file system to a zfs root file system oracle solaris live. If you are using live upgrade packages from a release previous to solaris 10 807, you do not need to remove this package. Step by step migration ufs to zfs file system on solaris 10 1. Jul 24, 20 oracle took a brave decision by making zfs as default root filesystem in solaris 11 onwards. Helios sun solaris 10 zfs offers blazing filesystem. Sep 17, 2015 regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch. Step by step migration ufs to zfs file system on solaris 10 on my system, i have one disk which is root of ufs file system. Oracle closed the source of zfs after the sun acquisition leaving freebsd without continuing updates to its version of zfs while oracle continued to develop zfs internally for solaris. How to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone. It includes support for high storage capacities, integration of concepts of file systems and volume management, snapshots and copy on write clones that is, an optimization strategy that allows callers who ask for resources that are indistinguishable to be given pointers to the same resource, continuous integrity checking. How to determine number of freeused inodes in a file system.
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