[GTALUG] Which Distro is Best for Running a ZFS-on-Linux Fileserver.

[Alvin Starr]

At the risk of poking the bear.

Why use ZFS at all?

ext4,XFS+LVM will do most all of the same things and from what I have 
read ZFS is slower than ext4,XFS and BTRFS.


On 08/28/2018 05:18 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote:
> Having read through the thread to date, I'm actually a little 
> disappointed at the number of linux users pushing towards a Solaris or 
> BSD for ZFS.
>
> My primary File servers (4 of them) are all using ZFS for their data 
> partitions.
>
>
> Amos,
>
> ## Couple of Answers to your questions
>
> A) Disto?
>
> I regularly run ZFS on CentOS and Fedora on a mix of SSDs and HDDs of 
> both the internal and external varieties. Fedora has some caveats, 
> only in that sometimes the kernel releases get ahead of what the ZFS 
> on linux team will support. And it's just a matter of waiting on a 
> working kernel zfs combination a week or two for them to catch up.
>
> But frankly, just pick your favorite distro and follow the relevant 
> getting started guide.
>
> https://zfsonlinux.org/
>
>
> B)  Distro with ZFS root support (at install time)?
>
> No distro install supports this yet as I've seen. Although the do it 
> yourself ubuntu guide is lengthy, but very well detailed.
>
> https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-18.04-Root-on-ZFS
>
> Arch also support ZFS root, but their installation is all largely 
> manual to begin with.
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_on_ZFS
>
>
> ## Couple of my own Questions
>
> 1) Why root (/) on ZFS, what is your use case / risk your trying to 
> mitigate?
>
>
> On 2018-08-24 02:26 PM, right.maple.nut via talk wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Like the Subject Line says, I'm setting up a ZFS File Server for my 
>> Home Network.
>>
>> Given that I will have to go to the trouble of setting up the Distro 
>> and Migrating the Linux Install to ZFS Root, I don't want to have to 
>> do this too many times.
>>
>> So, which Distro are the favourite for Running ZFS-on-Linux?
>>
>> Also, is there such a thing as a Linux Distro that is smart enough to 
>> give you a choice if you are willing to use non-GPL'ed code in the 
>> Installer, so that I can just Install Directly on a ZFS Pool?
>>
>> Thank You in Advance for your Input.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Amos
>>
>>
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