108: Spent Decades Writing Scripts to Parse df(1)
With Networking for Systems Administrators production wrapping up, OpenZFS Mastery is starting to lurch forward. Here’s a tidbit.
ZFS combines traditional filesystems and volume managers. It expects to handle everything from the permissions on individual files and which files are in which directories down to tracking which storage devices get used for what purposes and how that storage is arranged. The sysadmin instructs ZFS in arranging disks and files, but ZFS manages the entire storage stack beneath them. ZFS has three layers: datasets, storage pools, and virtual devices.
ZFS was…
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