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> ZFS merging the logically distinct layers of storage (volume and FS management) This really weirded me out at first, but now feels so right.
by vundercind 3y ago
> ZFS merging the logically distinct layers of storage (volume and FS management)
This really weirded me out at first, but now feels so right.
- doubled112 3y agoOnce you use ZFS it is hard to go back to anything else because of this.
- roygbiv2 3y agoEverytime I log into my esxi host I wish the storage used zfs. I know proxmox does and I'll probably head that way eventually.
- doubled112 3y agoI use Proxmox at home because it has ZFS and built in backups. That was enough of a selling point for me. ESXi and VSphere not having backups built in feels like classic "create the problem, sell the solution" to me.
- roygbiv2 3y agoPCI passthrough just works on esxi, couple of clicks done. Seems a little more involved in proxmox.
- doubled112 3y agoYou are correct. Linux will try to grab and use every piece of hardware you have installed, so you have to whitelist/ignore things I didn't find it too bad, but I haven't passed hardware to a VM in a number of years
- ansible 3y agoBack in the day (mid 1990's IIRC), I read one of the NetApp whitepapers on their WAFL (write anywhere file layout), and that's what sold me on merging the storage layers. The Motorola group I was at was transitioning from Auxpex to NetApp around that time.
- dekhn 3y agoAt the time of the ZFS presentation we were trying hard to move off NetApps- we had never-ending problems with WAFL (mainly caused by deleting 5TB from a nearly-full file system combined with snapshots). ZFS and Sun Fire were fairly early in their life cycles at that point so it wasn't "mature" enough for our enterprise use cases. I still don't like the idea of combinging volume management with filesystem, but it's clear that it's worked well for many people over the past 15 years