In the last couple of posts I pointed you to some very useful on-line demos. I personally enjoy demos because I can sit back, have a cup of coffee, and let someone else do the typing. They are nice to get a general feel for something.

Well, now is the time to get down and dirty. Roll up your sleeves and try a bunch of ZFS commands with a demonstration tutorial put out by Sun.

• Included in this tutorial:
• ZFS Command Summary
• Setting Up ZFS is Easy
• Creating a ZFS Storage Pool
• Creating a ZFS File System
• Adding Disks to a ZFS Storage Pool
• Using Redundant ZFS Configurations
• Managing ZFS is Easy
• Adding Additional ZFS File Systems
• Setting Reservations on a ZFS File System
• Setting Quotas on a ZFS File System
• Sharing ZFS File Systems
• ZFS Snapshots forData Recovery
• ZFS Property Inheritance
• Transferring ZFSData
• Transforming ZFSData (Compression)
• AdvancedManagement (ZFS Clones)
• Migrating ZFS Storage Pools
• ReplacingDevices in Your ZFS Storage Pool
• Scrubbing a ZFS Storage Pool
• ZFS Checksum Recovery
• Using ZFS with Solaris Zones
• Using ZFS Volumes

So go to ZFS DemonstrationTutorial