How are people using ZFS?

graysky · 2013-10-16 20:30:06

I made the switch from an mdadm controlled RAID5 to ZFS. I am curious how others are using ZFS. I watch Ben Rockwell's talk on ZFS[1,2] and am finding that I am not using most of the advanced features it offers. It got me wondering how others are using it.

My setup: 3 HDDs in a RAIDZ1 in a dedicated box. I am not using snapshots, or other advanced features. I literally have all 3 drives mounted to /mnt/zpool and that's it.
How I use it: I boot up the NAS once or twice a week and run shell script that uses rsync to move over pics, videos, files, etc.

I guess I could create a vdev under my zpool specifically for documents, and enable snapshots for just that part of the zpool. The majority of my content is user generated images which will not change.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-KesLwobps
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDLJJ2-ZTq8

Last edited by graysky (2013-10-18 15:34:55)

graysky · 2013-10-18 15:40:33

Edited my original post.

mixer · 2013-10-19 13:42:00

I use ZFS on a FreeBSD file server using 3 mirror pairs. I decided to use mirroring instead of raidz because drives are cheap, you get better read performance, and the zpool grows easily over time when failed devices are replaced with larger ones or extending with more pairs. I also use snapshots and ZFS send/receive for incremental backups over the network.

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#1 2013-10-16 20:30:06

How are people using ZFS?

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Re: How are people using ZFS?

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Re: How are people using ZFS?

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