Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?
James Allsopp wrote: > Thanks for that. Is it simply a case of installing the DKMS module, > building the pool (two drives in my case), formatting and mounting? You want to read, at a minimum: https://pthree.org/2012/12/04/zfs-administration-part-i-vdevs/ It may be 8 years old, but it's substantially still correct. -dsr-
Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?
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 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- > >
Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?
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-
Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?
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? -dsr- --
Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?
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. -dsr-
