My experience with zfs has been for large file servers. Never in a workstation environment. Really nice once you got used to its nuances. As it was for filer use I did not care about the ram used. On Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 9:38 PM Ed wrote: > Michael - ZFS will run on Linux, but is most at home on FreeBSD - and the > only way to boot from an encrypted partition that I have heard of. Might be > worth a look. > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 9:29 PM Michael Butash wrote: > >> Good to know, thanks for that. >> >> Encryption is high on my list, as aside from raid/redundancy, but would >> really like to find a better way vs. md+luks+lvm+fs to do >> hardware+encryption+volume management. >> >> I might try to reconstruct a device to do zfs, hoping it's more suitable >> for production than 2 years or so ago I tried it last. Then encryption was >> brand new and arch couldn't deal with booting off it. >> >> -mb >> >> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 8:38 PM Todd Cole wrote: >> >>> I have have been using ZFS raid for over a year on several servers >>> Proxmox both spinning and ssd's and ssd L2arc with spinning disks after the >>> learning curve I have nothing bad to say other than it does suck up ram >>> but worth the loss it is stable fault tolerant perfect what I do. easy >>> to replace or add drives. I have not used encryption --- yet >>> todd >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 7:22 PM Michael Butash >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Anyone actually using zfs on linux out there? Ala something like this >>>> >>>> ideally? >>>> >>>> When last I installed arch, there was a limit in the kernel that >>>> couldn't boot zfs for some reason, but otherwise tried it and liked what I >>>> saw. I'm more interested in encryption+boot if possible, but don't know >>>> anyone using zfs for anything real yet. >>>> >>>> I'd like to replace my md+luks+lvm setup with something that can do all >>>> native for raid+encryption+dynamic volumes, just would love to see someone >>>> else doing so already. >>>> >>>> -mb >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Todd Cole >>> Ubuntu Arizona Team >>> 2928 W El Caminito >>> Phoenix AZ 85051-3957 >>> toddc@azloco.com >>> 602-677-9402 >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss