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Seriously outside of very specific use cases I think there is a major bandwagoning with zfs. Using snapraid for larger unchanging data or normal raid without st

Seriously outside of very specific use cases I think there is a major bandwagoning with zfs. Using snapraid for larger unchanging data or normal raid without striping for vms or dbs allows your recovery story to be more flexible/robust

mustache_kimono 4y ago
> I think there is a major bandwagoning with zfs And I think there is a kooky caucus for half ass solutions. The Linux community has chosen to beclown itself by pretending ZFS isn't absolutely amazing (and free!), and the result is the strangest collection of system level kludges anywhere. You forgot Stratis and unraid!
- getcrunk 4y ago
  So what are some use cases you use zfs for?
- tadfisher 4y ago
  Java is free but Oracle still sued. No one has a problem with ZFS, they have a problem with its owners.
matheusmoreira 4y ago
> there is a major bandwagoning with zfs Well, there is a huge number of reasons for that. Just recently ZFS got RAID-Z expansion capabilities. Before that, I would have had to make plans for a storage server and buy all the storage devices upfront. Now I can expand the storage pool as needed, one device at a time. The ability to do this is the only reason I even bothered with btrfs. Now that ZFS has flexible storage pool expansion, it is essentially perfect as far as I'm concerned.