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zfsviz - Visualisation of ZFS dependencies

Monday, May 25. 2009

I had an interesting discussion with my colleague Dirk this morning. This discussion got to the point, that a tool visualizing the dependencies of filesystems, snapshots and clones would be helpful for the work with ZFS. Well ... i used this evening and the warm weather on my balcony to develop a small script that feeds GraphViz with the nescessary data to create a graph of the dependencies. The script isn´t ready for a widespread release (volumes are missing) but I want to show you a first output.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, General at 22:18 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Coole Idee. Bilder sagen mehr als tausend Zeilen ASCII Output

#1 Klettmaen (Homepage) on 2009-05-25 23:57 (Reply)

Totally unrelated to this post, but though you might like this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/25/pillar_data_oracle_ellison/

Looks like Chris Mellor's at it again with his little anti-Sun agenda. Check out his hilariously inaccurate description of Sun 7000.

Seriously, this HACK needs to be SACKED.

#2 Gary on 2009-05-26 03:56 (Reply)

Cool stuff !

I could actually use a script like that as I'm currently documenting a bunch of solaris servers.

#3 Erwin Pol on 2009-05-26 09:18 (Reply)

Will put this script in this blog today ...

#3.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-05-26 09:40 (Reply)

Oh, neat. I would have needed something like that one or two months ago, when I was manually unraveling a botched live upgrade, in order to understand what LU actually does to create the new BE.

#4 Lalufu (Homepage) on 2009-05-26 10:32 (Reply)

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