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4 ZFS mistakes you only make once (and how to avoid them)

Whether you’re planning to put together a custom NAS or just want to buy a pre-built storage server, it’s a good idea to thoroughly research your components. The same goes for the operating system, as ...
Ars Technica

How I did ZFS through FreeNAS on a 32bit proc with low memory.

Alright folks, so I was toying around with my FreeNAS 8.0.2 box and I encountered a problem where when I would copy data via samba to the ZFS share, the machine would kernel panic after about 30 ...
Ars Technica

Use zfs zvols as vdevs (i.e. nest zfs over zfs) tuning

I'm experimenting with a iSCSI target backed by zfs zvols, where the iSCSI initiators will also be using zfs, and I'm wondering what kind of tuning could be applied to reduce overhead. I assumed, ...
insideHPC

Video: SDSC’s Data Oasis Gen II: ZFS, 40GbE, and Replication

In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, Rick Wagner from SDSC presents: SDSC’s Data Oasis Gen II: ZFS, 40GbE, and Replication. The second generation of SDSC’s Data Oasis Lustre storage is coming online ...
Network World

Linux filesystems: Ext4, Btrfs, XFS, ZFS and more

Almost every bit of data needed to boot and run a Linux system is stored in a filesystem. Learn more about some commonly used Linux filesystem types. Linux supports quite a few filesystem types. Your ...