ZEVO Silver Edition 1.0.3 (March 2012) had graphical user interfaces (GUIs) – a setup assistant and for System Preferences, a preference pane. Some things that were not possible with the GUI were possible at the command line, with Terminal.
ZEVO Community Edition is more advanced and robust, but presents itself in a different way – for a different target audience. For the current version 1.1.1:
- a preference pane can help with minor routines – updates to the software, checks of file systems, and so on
- a GUI setup assistant is not included
- for setup, troubleshooting and other purposes, users should be familiar with use of Terminal.
If the phrase 'man page' means nothing to you
- download and install Bwana
- quit then reopen your web browser
- visit the two pages below.
Essential reference material
- manual page for zpool in a web browser (with Bwana) or in Terminal
- manual page for zfs in a browser or in Terminal.
If either page is daunting, then ZEVO Community Edition version 1.1.1 may be not the best choice for your use of ZFS.
Expect future versions, or future editions, to require less use of Terminal.
In all situations
Have backups.
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First edition of this post: Thursday 2012-10-04 … future editions of this opening post should offer better advice.
Suggestions welcome.