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Cleaning up unused ZFS container datasets

Thursday May 17, 2007

Everyone is excited about ZFS these days, so am I! The thing is, I am one of these guys who hate too many directories in the / filesystem, like ZFS do.

In the following example every ZFS dataset is mounted out of the zpool container (/mercury), so this remains empty. I wanted to get rid of this empty zpool container dataset somehow...to meet *my*, errr...ahem well..."mikey Fashion Standard©"

NAME                   USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
mercury               5.68G   262G  25.5K  /mercury
mercury/mail          36.4M  3.96G  36.4M  /var/mail
mercury/samba          996M  99.0G   996M  /data/samba
mercury/software      24.5K   262G  24.5K  /export/software

The solution was in fact pretty easy...

zfs set mountpoint=none mercury

so I end up with:

NAME                   USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
mercury               5.68G   262G  25.5K  none
mercury/mail          36.4M  3.96G  36.4M  /var/mail
mercury/samba          996M  99.0G   996M  /data/samba
mercury/software      24.5K   262G  24.5K  /export/software

Well, I can set a mountpoint for this zpool to something else, say... /tmp/mercury, but what's the point? It's empty, anyway.

Gotta love this feature.

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Posted at 08:20PM May 17, 2007 by Michal Nowak in Solaris
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Polish OpenSolaris Portal - Up and Running

Thursday May 17, 2007

It was always my dream to open this Portal, and now it became reality..

It is a great honour and pleasure to announce Polish OpenSolaris Portal.

There were some complications so that delayed things a little bit, but we are back on track! The problem is, it was difficult to get all the team members sign their SCA, basically because some members disappeared after translating one or two pages. The good news is there are many new members we have gained, and that willing to work, so the community is growing.

Poland is the second country to open its portal just right after Japan (according to Country Portals Project page). I hope this Portal will be beneficial to the community as Poland happens to be in the top of the list of countries ordering OpenSolaris Starter Kit.

The other thing is this move should encourage other county portals communities to open their own portals, as there are only three places on the podium, so first come, first served.. :)

In the end, from this very place I'd like to thank my team members - good job guys, I am proud of y'all :)