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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday September 11 2018, @03:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the zed-eff-ess-or-zee-eff-ess dept.

John Paul Wohlscheid over at It's FOSS takes a look at the ZFS file system and its capabilities. He mainly covers OpenZFS which is the fork made since Oracle bought and shut down Solaris which was the original host of ZFS. It features pooled storage with RAID-like capabilities, copy-on-write with snapshots, data integrity verification and automatic repair, and it can handle files up to 16 exabytes in size, with file systems of up to 256 quadrillion zettabytes in size should you have enough electricity to pull that off. Because it started development under a deliberately incompatible license, ZFS cannot be directly integrated in Linux. However, several distros work around that and provide packages for it. It has been ported to FreeBSD since 2008.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @10:18AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @10:18AM (#733536)

    but over a gig should be fine.

    My home network media backup ZFS box had 2GB ram, I ran into occasional stability issues (unexplained random reboots) it now has 4GB and runs solid 24/7, i'd say throw as much RAM at it as your motherboard can handle.
    Once I can source a cheap secondhand multi cpu server with over 32GB ram then I'll move the current disk pool over to it and consider firing up the (probably now badly needed) dedupe facility, the SD cards from the various family digital cameras and phones get regularly backed up to the server, and the networked home directories live there as well, so no doubt there are multiple copies of the same images and music files lurking on it.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @10:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @10:42AM (#733543)

    My home network media backup ZFS box had 2GB ram, I ran into occasional stability issues (unexplained random reboots)

    I should have added in there, that this was during the testing phase, I ran the thing for a month and seriously hammered it, upped the beastie to 4GB, hammered it again for another couple of weeks before finally going live with it.