09 February, 2021
So scrubbing ZFS: Giving ZFS a moment to sit down and think about its behavior. It should happen now and again, but if everything is going smooth sailing we tend to forget to do this; With the ever increasing amount of ZFS servers around, it tends to be a hassle, so this is a perfect […]
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ZFS has this less documented feature, called share[nfs|smb]; I tried it once, it “did not work on first attempt”™ So I ignored it; However now we faced an issue where we normally exported ZFS volumes using /etc/exports (NFS); and mounted using /etc/fstab; but got an empty directory where there was a “sub” zpool volume; This […]
20 March, 2019
This is a quick howto, I made a raidz2 pool on ZFS, its very similar to how to create a mirror. find out what disks you are giving to the pool : [email protected]:~# fdisk -l /dev/sd* | grep Disk Disk /dev/sda: 9.1 TiB, 10000831348736 bytes, 19532873728 sectors Disk /dev/sdb: 9.1 TiB, 10000831348736 bytes, 19532873728 sectors […]
06 February, 2019
Ever wondered what kind of checksum ZFS uses to check for bit rot ? Probably not, but it turns out you can change the used algorithm. However like most settings, the defaults are chosen by smart people. So changing it might not be doing you any favors. As it turns out, the default checksum used […]
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