ZFS Screencasts

In June 2007, Paul Venezia, senior contributing editor at InforWorld, posted a 10 minute screen cast in which he sets up ZFS on a SunFire x4500 ("Thumper"). (ZFS has become available on Mac OS "Leopard" and the FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT snapshot sinse Paul made the screencast.)

PJD, the man behind ZFS porting on FreeBSD, has produced a number of ZFS screencasts which have been posted to youtube:

• some ZFS basics, like adding/replacing disks into a zpool
• how to create disk snapshots on ZFS
• snapshoting and cloning UFS on top of ZFS
• self-healing feature demonstration

The image quality on the youtube videos is not great. There are some better quality flash screencasts on the opensolaris.org site:

• Self Healing with ZFS
• Brief and simple demo of the basics of using ZFS including making 100 mirrored filesystems in 5 minutes