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ZFS is a modern file system and volume manager originally developed by Sun Microsystems and licensed under the CDDL. It is a copy-on-write file system with support for large storage arrays, protection against corruption, snapshots, clones, compression, deduplication and NFSv4 ACLs. An open-source fork of ZFS can be found at http://open-zfs.org/ , which is supported by ZFSonlinux.org, illumos.org and ZFS developers in the FreeBSD & Mac OS X communities.

ZFS is supported out of the box on a number of operating systems:

  • Solaris 10
  • Oracle Solaris 11 Express
  • FreeBSD
  • NexentaStor
  • illumos - specifically, illumos-based distributions, like:
    • Nexenta's illumian
    • Joyent's SmartOS (server OS with strong focus on virtualization)
    • OmniTI's OmniOS (general purpose server OS)
    • OpenIndiana (general purpose desktop/server OS)

Due to license incompatibilities, the CDDL licensed ZFS code cannot be distributed as part of the GPL licensed Linux kernel. Other alternatives methods are available for running ZFS on Linux:

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Are consumer class hard disks okay for zfs?

I just recently bought a new server an HP DL380 G6. I replaced the stock smart array p410 controller with an LSI 9211-8i. My plan is use ZFS as the underlying storage for XEN which will run on the same baremetal. I have been told that you can use…
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What are the performance implications of running VMs on a ZFS host?

I'm considering migrating from ext3 to ZFS for data storage on my Debian Linux host, using ZFS on Linux. One killer feature of ZFS that I really want is its data integrity guarantees. The ability to trivially grow storage as my storage needs…
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Can I trust that ZFS is consistent between Linux and FreeBSD?

I'm planning to build a FreeNAS box sometime soon, but if ZFS on Linux eventually proves to be reliable, I might want to switch, just to have a more familiar OS. So I'm wondering if I can trust that the different implementations of ZFS are…
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KVM on Illumos (OpenIndiana vs. SmartOS)

I'm considering virtualizing a number of guests onto a single server running a recent port of KVM to Illumos. It sounds like my two primary options will be OpenIndiana and SmartOS. The distribution I will end up using needs to meet the following…
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ZFS - destroying deduplicated zvol or data set stalls the server. How to recover?

I'm using Nexentastor on a secondary storage server running on an HP ProLiant DL180 G6 with 12 Midline (7200 RPM) SAS drives. The system has an E5620 CPU and 8GB RAM. There is no ZIL or L2ARC device. Last week, I created a 750GB sparse zvol with…
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ZFS Sync over unreliable, slow WAN. ZFS replication, or rsync?

I've been tasked with making an off-site backup work over the WAN. Both storage boxes are FreeBSD based NAS boxes running ZFS. Once or twice a week, 15-60 gigs of photography data gets dumped to the office NAS. My job is to figure out how to get…
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Best filesystem choices for NFS storing VMware disk images

Currently we use an iSCSI SAN as storage for several VMware ESXi servers. I am investigating the use of an NFS target on a Linux server for additional virtual machines. I am also open to the idea of using an alternative operating system (like…
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Which is faster for read access on EC2; local drive or EBS?

Which is faster for read access on an EC2 instance; the "local" drive or an attached EBS volume? I have some data that needs to be persisted so have placed this on an EBS volume. I'm using OpenSolaris, so this volume has been attached as a ZFS pool.…
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Slow sequential speeds on 9x7-drive raidz2 (ZFS ZoL 0.8.1)

I'm running a large ZFS pool built for 256K+ request size sequential reads and writes via iSCSI (for backups) on Ubuntu 18.04. Given the need for high throughput and space efficiency, and less need for random small-block performance, I went with…
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How do I expand the root's volume size?

I have Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS running off a 16GB SanDisk USB pendrive in my server. From what I can remember, when I installed Ubuntu on there I had enabled LVM support. For some reason, when I ssh into my server, it says / is using 99.6% of…
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Can ZFS using snaphots replace DRBD using sync protocol A?

This question is related to a former, more generic one, but this time I would like to ask more specifically if ZFS can replace DRBD in a use case like mine. That is two servers, both hosting their own VMs or other services while replicating the VMs…
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Adding more mirrored vdevs to a ZFS pool on Ubuntu

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS and I have a ZFS pool named unas containing two mirrored drives. I have now attached two more drives and I want to add these new drives to my unas pool as a pair of mirrored drives so that I end up with one pool, named…
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zpool status reports error ... what next?

On our FreeNAS server, zpool status gives me: pool: raid2 state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the…
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How to NFSv4 share a ZFS file system on FreeBSD?

Using FreeBSD 9, and created a ZFS file system like so zfs create tank/project1 zfs set sharenfs=on tank/project1 There are many howto's on setting up NFSv3 on FreeBSD on the net, but I can't find any one NFSv4 and when the NFS share is done with…
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Identifying the number of changed bytes between two ZFS snapshots of the same file

Let's assume I have a ZFS filesystem that contains virtual machine disk images, e.g. /tank/examplevm/examplevm-flat.vmdk Let's further assume I take daily snapshots of that ZFS filesystem, e.g. $ zfs snapshot tank@20120716 $ zfs snapshot…
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