@oksana said in The Truth Behind ZFS Benefits and Drawbacks:

This time, we tell the truth about ZFS pros and cons. We also cover why ZFS was never adopted by such industry-standard hypervisors as Hyper-V and vSphere

Because it isn't a clustered filesystem so didn't apply 🙂 That's an easy one to answer. Also, they couldn't license it.

@DustinB3403
I don't doubt it.
There wasn't really any added complexity though. PVE was installed with all the defaults.

@Obsolesce You can watch it on Starwind YouTube channel.

Thanks for the reply, the issue is that sanoid.conf does not send the snapshot to the usb but syncoid does, or does having that template automatic prune the snapshots?

@matteo-nunziati said in Deciding Between Hardware and Software RAID in My FreeNAS Deployment:

@saniplastic said in Deciding Between Hardware and Software RAID in My FreeNAS Deployment:

@DustinB3403 said in Deciding Between Hardware and Software RAID in My FreeNAS Deployment:

metadata

metadata?

please explain more.

The config files where the vm is defined. Do not backup the vm disk only. I suppose he referes to this.

I backup with veeam.
whole vm files.

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@scottalanmiller said in Transparent compression on folders in EXT4/XFS etc?:

@dafyre said in Transparent compression on folders in EXT4/XFS etc?:

@scottalanmiller said in Transparent compression on folders in EXT4/XFS etc?:

@dafyre said in Transparent compression on folders in EXT4/XFS etc?:

@scottalanmiller said in Transparent compression on folders in EXT4/XFS etc?:

@dafyre said in Transparent compression on folders in EXT4/XFS etc?:

Edit: I'm going to put my Zabbix instance on it later and see how it does.

Databases should not be compressed!

Details as to why databases should not be compressed?

Basically because they are always open and written to incrementally. They aren't loaded and rewriteen like most files are. And they tend to be very large, so a very intensive usage pattern.

True. But this compression is being done on the Host OS, not inside the Zabbix VM. I wonder what kind of strangeness this can cause. I don't have a lot of traffic on this particular server.

That doesn't affect anything. Compression is compression.

I'll find out what kind of performance hits I take with it on ZFS. So far, I'm seeing some nice space savings and no problems with anything else.