On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:35:00 -0800 (PST) Arthur Gressick <artgressick at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry guys I am an avid linux person but new to solaris. Where/what do I type > to find out all of the physical disks on the system to see if they mounted in > linux I would just type fdisk -l but that command isn't available. I want to > see if the devices are available to create a ZFS pool. > > Also is the open solaris stable enough to use as a NAS device with ZFS? Just > wondering as I see a lot of posts. I want to use it for this and feel it is > excellent candidate. Hi Arthur, firstly - welcome to OpenSolaris (and don't apologise for being new or knowing any other OS!) Secondly, we do have fdisk in OpenSolaris, but it's different to what you expect. Instead, run # /usr/sbin/format < /dev/null To see more detail about those disks, you can run $ iostat -En If you want to add any of those disks to a zpool but they're in use for an existing mountpoint, metadevice or such, you'll see a message warning you. I don't think libdiskmgmt knows about linux filesystems, however, so exercise caution there. http://docs.sun.com will be your new best friend, too :-) Lots of people are using OpenSolaris from Sun and other distro makers (such as Nexenta) for NAS systems, and it's plenty stable. You could even have a look at Sun's storage appliance, there's a VMWare demo image available (see http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/) and check out the blogs from the Fishworks team via http://blogs.sun.com/fishworks Cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
