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Highly recommended! One can even learn about, and experiment with, ZFS using files sitting on a disk by setting the files up as loopback devices. For example:
by npongratz 6y ago
Highly recommended! One can even learn about, and experiment with, ZFS using files sitting on a disk by setting the files up as loopback devices. For example:
https://dev.to/nikvdp/https-nikvdp-com-post-zfs-part1-31fj https://dev.to/nikvdp/https-nikvdp-com-post-zfs-part1-31fj
- dragontamer 6y agoHmm... that's a good idea. It may be simpler to play with ZFS on VMs. The VM-disks will be small and inefficient, but "good enough" to prove whether or not the system works. Not that I've tried any of this before. I happened to have an old computer lying around with ~4 small hard drives that I messed with to learn the ins-and-outs of ZFS the first time I used it. (Shuck hard drives, pull them out of laptops, etc. etc. Its not really that hard to get 4 hard drives to play with, especially if you ask your friends for ancient laptops with 200gb drives or something)