zfs on linux

[Stephen Partington]

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 <plug at 0x1b.com> 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 <michael at butash.net> 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 <toddc at azloco.com> 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 <michael at butash.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone actually using zfs on linux out there?  Ala something like this
>>>> <https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-On-Linux-0.8-RC1-Released>
>>>> 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
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