Another thing to keep in mind is that ZFS does have one flaw; it's a memory hog. If you have a large ZFS filesystem you will need a LOT of RAM to get acceptable performance. But it does represent the current state of the art for file system data integrity.
I have to allow that my only experience with ZFS to date is with FreeNAS, which is based on FreeBSD. I have moved all my bulk data storage to a pair of NAS boxes and have a relatively small amount of local space on each computer. FreeNAS does not use ZFS for the system volume. On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 1:40 PM Shirley Márquez Dúlcey <m...@buttery.org> wrote: > > I don't think any of the usual bootloaders support ZFS. The usual way > to handle that is to create a small /boot filesystem using something > else like ext4, just like you did back in the days when large hard > drives weren't supported by the BIOS and therefore the bootloader > couldn't access their entire capacity. The installers for most distros > can handle setting up a system that way. > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 12:32 PM Marco Milano <marco.mil...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 10/26/18 11:38 AM, Rich Pieri wrote: > > > > > > > > Having recently-ish rebuilt my home server with full ZFS I have to say > > > that ZFS makes backups ridiculously easy. And quick. > > > > How did you get the root filesystem under ZFS? > > > > Is there a nice/clean/easy recipe ? > > > > -- Marco > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss@blu.org > > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
