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

[David Mason]

I haven’t done a comparison lately, but used LVM for years, and liked it, but ZFS is so much more flexible: resize filesystems, snapshots, raidz2, sending to another ZFS system (for seamless backups and redundancy), auto-silvering, plug-and-play.

../Dave
On Aug 28, 2018, 9:18 PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk <talk at gtalug.org>, wrote:
> 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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