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Well, scrubbing with md is pretty easy, too. That said, ZFS sounds great, and I've been meaning to learn it sometime. The big thing holding me off has been jus

by xb95 13y ago

Well, scrubbing with md is pretty easy, too. That said, ZFS sounds great, and I've been meaning to learn it sometime. The big thing holding me off has been just -- well, how much time I've put into learning md and such, and how I would find it hard to justify going back to not knowing much (since this is my livelihood). If you have any tips on "read this, it's a good intro" stuff (slanted to Linux, as that's my cuppa), I'd welcome them.

lmm 13y ago
I'm no expert, just a satisfied user; I got into it from the FreeBSD side, and followed their tutorials, but I don't know how well they'd apply to Linux. In general I like the Gentoo and Arch wikis, particularly for slightly lower-level things like this - even if one is using a different distribution, they tend to take the time and explain the concepts in a way that's mostly distribution-independent. I will say that ZFS felt very coherent and even - dare I say it - easy. I was worried that merging layers that I'm used to thinking of as separate would mean a loss of control, but I was able to put together all the layouts I wanted. The various commands with a single interface felt a lot like using lvm2 - different tools but under a unifying structure with the same parameters - and a lot of what it does is lvm-like. So my best tip is to approach it more as an LVM that can also do raid-like functionality and be mounted directly, rather than as a raid system that includes volume management. Sorry if that's not terribly helpful - as I said, I'm not an expert, but I wanted to at least give you some kind of reply.
- markeganfuller 13y ago
  +1 for the Arch wiki. Despite being a distro wiki they have very nice in depth and distro-independent pages. I use Debian but regularly read through the Arch wiki when trying to do new stuff.

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Well, scrubbing with md is pretty easy, too. That said, ZFS sounds great, and I've been meaning to learn it sometime. The big thing holding me off has been jus

by xb95 13y ago

lmm 13y ago
I'm no expert, just a satisfied user; I got into it from the FreeBSD side, and followed their tutorials, but I don't know how well they'd apply to Linux. In general I like the Gentoo and Arch wikis, particularly for slightly lower-level things like this - even if one is using a different distribution, they tend to take the time and explain the concepts in a way that's mostly distribution-independent. I will say that ZFS felt very coherent and even - dare I say it - easy. I was worried that merging layers that I'm used to thinking of as separate would mean a loss of control, but I was able to put together all the layouts I wanted. The various commands with a single interface felt a lot like using lvm2 - different tools but under a unifying structure with the same parameters - and a lot of what it does is lvm-like. So my best tip is to approach it more as an LVM that can also do raid-like functionality and be mounted directly, rather than as a raid system that includes volume management. Sorry if that's not terribly helpful - as I said, I'm not an expert, but I wanted to at least give you some kind of reply.
- markeganfuller 13y ago
  +1 for the Arch wiki. Despite being a distro wiki they have very nice in depth and distro-independent pages. I use Debian but regularly read through the Arch wiki when trying to do new stuff.