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Re-labeling my ZFS devices with glabel

06-Apr-10

As I stated before, I wanted to move the underlying devices in my ZFS pool to glabel-based naming. To do so, I did the following 3 commands: > sudo zpool offline tank da2s1 > sudo glabel label -v fantom_1tb /dev/da2 Metadata value stored on /dev/da2. Done. > sudo zpool replace tank da2s1 /dev/label/fantom_1tb Then, doing [...]

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Adding cache device to ZFS

04-Apr-10

I went ahead and bought this USB stick to put in the back of my Portwell machine. The idea is to use it as a device cache to speed up my ZFS tank. Based on this post by Alexander Leidinger, it should reduce latency (when data is in the cache), but not otherwise. I was [...]

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