Thanks for that. Is it simply a case of installing the DKMS module, building the pool (two drives in my case), formatting and mounting?
James On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 13:18, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > elvis wrote: > > > > On 29/7/20 11:56 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > James Allsopp wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a > ZFS > > > > partition in Debian Buster? > > > Yes, on a largish number of servers plus a few desktops and a > > > laptop. > > > > And a follow up, why do you use it? > > - data integrity > - snapshots and zfs send/receive for backups > - good reporting of disk events > - does not incur an unacceptable speed penalty > - well documented, relatively simple method of disk replacement > - pools can be transferred between machines without specific > controller requirements > - flexibility of filesystems-on-pools > > And because I have that experience at work, I am reasonably > happy to run it at home on the systems where it makes sense. > > -dsr- > >
