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Has this happened to you?
You’re ready to upload a video, but your editing drive is full. You grab an old USB drive, copy some files, and hope it doesn’t crash.
Or worse—you’ve lost an important project because of drive failure. Sound familiar?
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Stop losing files and start future-proofing your work. Trust me, once you understand what ZFS can do, you’ll wonder how you managed without it.
Been using it for at least a decade now.
It’s a great file system. Really easy to get it on several Linux distributions now as .
Not a long term ZFS user like you, but I agree it is a really good filesystem.
That’s a pity its license makes it not available by default on Linux though.There are a number of distros that have it as an install option now. It’s come such a long way.
I think FreeNAS was my entry point. But it might have been Solaris.
There are a number of distros that have it as an install option now
From the installer directly wow that’s nice, I was’nt aware of that.
Do you have a specific distro name in mind?
Is there also ZFS on root?I think FreeNAS was my entry point. But it might have been Solaris.
For me it’s FreeBSD, I tried also TrueNas but I got back to FreeBSD and looking how things goes for TrueNas CORE, I think I did the right choice.
I also play a bit with IllumOS more specifally OmniOS, but I am a very noob at it, zones look kind of impressive I just don’t really understand why this technology is not more popular, Solaris is not what it was before okay but IllumOS seems doing good, looks like Docker took everything.CachyOS and Ubuntu off the top of my head.
Thank you, I’ll take a look.
After reading your message yesterday I did few researches and found an interesting discussion which talk about the different solutions for Linux to play with ZFS:
https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/t/which-linux-distribution-works-best-with-openzfs-and-zfs-boot-menu-and-allows-easy-os-upgrades/1449It appears that ZFSbootmenu is the way to go if one want to have ZFS on root as linus@telegrafverket.cc suggested before in his message.
For others who might be interested I also found this documentation which contains a lot of information:
https://docs.zfsbootmenu.org/en/v2.3.xGrub2 works as well and is what I’ve been using.
Indeed :)
I am not a hardcore ZFS user, I barely scratch the surface of what it can do, but still I appreciate the basic features it offers on FreeBSD, like Boot Environment, snapshots, dataset clone.
I never used it on Linux though, may be one day I’ll try it.It’s nice to see that Linux can also enjoy ZFS now, thanks for the feedback.
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@zer0@lemm.ee does btrfs also offer these benefits?
Sorry I can’t tell, complete BTRFS noob here, I’ve tried it may be once in VM but that’s it, I mostly spend my time on FreeBSD between ZFS and UFS, when I am on Linux the filesystem is EXT4 or eventually XFS.
