Centre Blaise Pascal » gZFS

# $Id: INSTALL 26 2013-10-02 15:16:57Z ltaulell $

  * Mandatory

zfs on linux (see http://zfsonlinux.org/ )

smartctl (smartmontools)

mbuffer (mbuffer)

  * install GUI on "manager"

apt-get	install openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jre-headless

optional: apt-get install smartmontools mbuffer xbase-clients

create /opt/gZFS/

rsync from svn (rsync --exclude '.svn*') bin/ and jarjarbin/ to /opt/gZFS/

example: 

rsync --recursive --exclude '.svn*' -e ssh ~/home/project/gZFS/bin root@<manager>:/opt/gZFS/

rsync --recursive --exclude '.svn*' -e ssh ~/home/project/gZFS/jarjarbin root@<manager>:/opt/gZFS/

launch the GUI (user root):

java -jar /opt/gZFS/jarjarbin/gZFS-linux-x64.jar

See the GUI manual.

if manager also host zfs datasets that will be managed, see managed servers doc.

  * install tools on each "managed" servers :

apt-get install smartmontools mbuffer

rsync from "manager" :

example: rsync --recursive --exclude "infodisks.cache" --exclude "jarjarbin" -e ssh root@<manager>/opt/gZFS /opt/

create /opt/gZFS/replicas/ and /opt/gZFS/snapshots/

make symbolic links to scripts :

for i in $(ls /opt/gZFS/bin/); do ln -s /opt/gZFS/bin/$i /sbin/$i ; done

create cache :

get-disk-zpool > /opt/gZFS/infodisks.cache