Getting started with ZFS on OEL7

In this short Blog I will show how you can create a new ZFS pool, file system and also show some other ZFS command on OEL7.

ZFS installation on OEL7

# yum install -y yum-utils
# yum-config-manager --enable ol7_developer_EPEL
# yum install -y dkms
# rpm -Uvh http://download.zfsonlinux.org/epel/zfs-release.el7_6.noarch.rpm
# sudo yum install -y zfs
# /sbin/modprobe zfs
# systemctl -a | grep zfs

Identify device(s)

[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l
...
Disk /dev/sdc: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes, 20971520 sectors
 Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
 Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
 I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
...

Show Status

Confirm status, as you can see we currently have no ZFS pools defined.

[root@localhost ~]# zpool list
no pools available

[root@localhost ~]# zfs list
no datasets available

Create a ZFS pool

The zpool create command will by default automatically mount the pool using the same name, however you can specify a different location with the -m option. In this example I am assuming the data protection is being provided by the storage sub-system so have not specified any RAID configuration.

[root@localhost ~]# zpool create mypool /dev/sdc

[root@localhost ~]# zpool list
NAME     SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
mypool  9.94G   106K  9.94G         -     0%     0%  1.00x  ONLINE  -

[root@localhost ~]# df -h
Filesystem             Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
mypool                 9.7G     0  9.7G   0% /mypool

Enable autoexpand on ZFS pool

[root@localhost ~]# zpool get autoexpand mypool
NAME    PROPERTY    VALUE   SOURCE
mypool  autoexpand  off     default

[root@localhost ~]# zpool set autoexpand=on mypool

[root@localhost ~]# zpool get autoexpand mypool
NAME    PROPERTY    VALUE   SOURCE
mypool  autoexpand  on      local

Show ZFS zpool status

[root@localhost ~]# zpool status
  pool: mypool
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:
 
NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
mypool      ONLINE       0     0     0
  sdc       ONLINE       0     0     0
 
errors: No known data errors

Create ZFS File System

[root@localhost ~]# zfs create mypool/myfs

[root@localhost ~]# zfs list
NAME          USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
mypool        116K  9.63G  25.5K  /mypool
mypool/myfs    24K  9.63G    24K  /mypool/myfs
 
[root@localhost ~]# df -h
Filesystem           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
mypool               9.7G     0  9.7G   0% /mypool
mypool/myfs          9.7G     0  9.7G   0% /mypool/myfs

Check status of compression and dedup

[root@localhost ~]# zfs get -r compression mypool/myfs
NAME         PROPERTY     VALUE     SOURCE
mypool/myfs  compression  off       default

[root@localhost ~]# zfs get -r dedup mypool/myfs
NAME         PROPERTY  VALUE          SOURCE
mypool/myfs  dedup     off            default

Finally, mount status

[root@localhost mypool]# mount
..
mypool on /mypool type zfs (rw,seclabel,xattr,noacl)
mypool/myfs on /mypool/myfs type zfs (rw,seclabel,xattr,noacl)
 

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