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I will have a completed project called OpenSolaris NAS device once I get the testing finished but for now here are some directions for setting up a ZFS file system. I am using VMware fusion for Mac and created the main system and then 4 additional 1GB drives. I set them up at SATA drives which would be like I would have in the final product.

First thing I had to do what install the software and then after I install everything I opened the terminal and begin hacking away. Here are my commands that I ran:

Get the ID for each of the attached drives.

iostat -En

Create a simple mirror of just 2 drives. (drive_id = id from command above)

zpool create your_pool_name mirror drive_id drive_id

SAMPLE of script above

zpool create your_pool_name mirror c4t1d0 c4t2d0

Check your work

zpool list
zpool status

create a folder

zfs create your_pool_name/folder_name

Adding more space to the storage pool

zpool add your_pool_name mirror drive_id drive_id

Checking all of the drives that make up the zfs pool

zpool status -v

Setting reserve limits of space

zfs set reservation=157m your_pool_name/folder

Show any of the reservations on the system

zfs get reservation your_pool_name/folder

Remove a reservation from a folder

zfs set reservation=none your_pool_name/folder

Setting Quotas

zfs set quota=3M your_pool_name/folder

Show Quotas

zfs get quota your_pool_name/folder

Removing the Quote

zfs set quota=none your_pool_name/folder

Changing Permissions (I am sure there is a ZFS one, I used Unix)

chown user:group /your_pool_name

Always check the pool to see if it is already compressed

zfs get compression your_pool_name/folder

Start compression

zfs set compression=on your_pool_name/folder

Turn off compresstion

zfs set compression=off your_pool_name/folder

Look for more articles on ZFS.

So I recently started on building an OpenSolaris NAS device and wanted to check out the internal HDD drives. I needed to format the drives and also get the IDs of the drives to add to ZFS pool here are some directions

iostat -En

Formatting the Solaris drives is done with this

/usr/sbin/format < /dev/null

checking the mounted partitions

df -h

I will be posting a ton of information soon on how to go from start to finish with an OpenSolaris NAS device.