I haven’t done a comparison lately, but used LVM for years, and liked it, but ZFS is so much more flexible: resize filesystems, snapshots, raidz2, sending to another ZFS system (for seamless backups and redundancy), auto-silvering, plug-and-play.
../Dave On Aug 28, 2018, 9:18 PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org>, wrote: > At the risk of poking the bear. > > Why use ZFS at all? > > ext4,XFS+LVM will do most all of the same things and from what I have > read ZFS is slower than ext4,XFS and BTRFS. > > > On 08/28/2018 05:18 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote: > > Having read through the thread to date, I'm actually a little > > disappointed at the number of linux users pushing towards a Solaris or > > BSD for ZFS. > > > > My primary File servers (4 of them) are all using ZFS for their data > > partitions. > > > > > > Amos, > > > > ## Couple of Answers to your questions > > > > A) Disto? > > > > I regularly run ZFS on CentOS and Fedora on a mix of SSDs and HDDs of > > both the internal and external varieties. Fedora has some caveats, > > only in that sometimes the kernel releases get ahead of what the ZFS > > on linux team will support. And it's just a matter of waiting on a > > working kernel zfs combination a week or two for them to catch up. > > > > But frankly, just pick your favorite distro and follow the relevant > > getting started guide. > > > > https://zfsonlinux.org/ > > > > > > B) Distro with ZFS root support (at install time)? > > > > No distro install supports this yet as I've seen. Although the do it > > yourself ubuntu guide is lengthy, but very well detailed. > > > > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-18.04-Root-on-ZFS > > > > Arch also support ZFS root, but their installation is all largely > > manual to begin with. > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_on_ZFS > > > > > > ## Couple of my own Questions > > > > 1) Why root (/) on ZFS, what is your use case / risk your trying to > > mitigate? > > > > > > On 2018-08-24 02:26 PM, right.maple.nut via talk wrote: > > > > > > Hello All, > > > > > > Like the Subject Line says, I'm setting up a ZFS File Server for my > > > Home Network. > > > > > > Given that I will have to go to the trouble of setting up the Distro > > > and Migrating the Linux Install to ZFS Root, I don't want to have to > > > do this too many times. > > > > > > So, which Distro are the favourite for Running ZFS-on-Linux? > > > > > > Also, is there such a thing as a Linux Distro that is smart enough to > > > give you a choice if you are willing to use non-GPL'ed code in the > > > Installer, so that I can just Install Directly on a ZFS Pool? > > > > > > Thank You in Advance for your Input. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Amos > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Talk Mailing List > > > talk@gtalug.org > > > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > > > > > > > -- > Alvin Starr || land: (905)513-7688 > Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 > al...@netvel.net || > > --- > Talk Mailing List > talk@gtalug.org > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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