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| Started by | James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> |
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| First post | 2020-07-29 16:00 +0200 |
| Last post | 2020-07-30 16:50 +0200 |
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Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster? James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> - 2020-07-29 16:00 +0200
Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-29 16:00 +0200
Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster? elvis <elvis@dogonfire.com> - 2020-07-30 07:30 +0200
Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-30 14:20 +0200
Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster? James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> - 2020-07-30 16:20 +0200
Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-30 16:50 +0200
| From | James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> |
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| Date | 2020-07-29 16:00 +0200 |
| Subject | Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster? |
| Message-ID | <AxUMF-qu-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS partition in Debian Buster? Thanks James
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| From | Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> |
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| Date | 2020-07-29 16:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <AxUMG-qu-15@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #225493 |
James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS > partition in Debian Buster? Yes, on a largish number of servers plus a few desktops and a laptop. -dsr-
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| From | elvis <elvis@dogonfire.com> |
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| Date | 2020-07-30 07:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <Ay9iF-1dd-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #225496 |
On 29/7/20 11:56 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: > James Allsopp wrote: >> Hi, >> I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS >> partition in Debian Buster? > Yes, on a largish number of servers plus a few desktops and a > laptop. And a follow up, why do you use it? > -dsr- > --
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| From | Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> |
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| Date | 2020-07-30 14:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <AyfHr-58u-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #225520 |
elvis wrote: > > On 29/7/20 11:56 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: > > James Allsopp wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS > > > partition in Debian Buster? > > Yes, on a largish number of servers plus a few desktops and a > > laptop. > > And a follow up, why do you use it? - data integrity - snapshots and zfs send/receive for backups - good reporting of disk events - does not incur an unacceptable speed penalty - well documented, relatively simple method of disk replacement - pools can be transferred between machines without specific controller requirements - flexibility of filesystems-on-pools And because I have that experience at work, I am reasonably happy to run it at home on the systems where it makes sense. -dsr-
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| From | James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> |
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| Date | 2020-07-30 16:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <Ayhzz-6hY-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #225540 |
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Thanks for that. Is it simply a case of installing the DKMS module, building the pool (two drives in my case), formatting and mounting? James On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 13:18, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote: > elvis wrote: > > > > On 29/7/20 11:56 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > James Allsopp wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a > ZFS > > > > partition in Debian Buster? > > > Yes, on a largish number of servers plus a few desktops and a > > > laptop. > > > > And a follow up, why do you use it? > > - data integrity > - snapshots and zfs send/receive for backups > - good reporting of disk events > - does not incur an unacceptable speed penalty > - well documented, relatively simple method of disk replacement > - pools can be transferred between machines without specific > controller requirements > - flexibility of filesystems-on-pools > > And because I have that experience at work, I am reasonably > happy to run it at home on the systems where it makes sense. > > -dsr- > >
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| From | Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> |
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| Date | 2020-07-30 16:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <Ayi2B-6rI-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #225555 |
James Allsopp wrote: > Thanks for that. Is it simply a case of installing the DKMS module, > building the pool (two drives in my case), formatting and mounting? You want to read, at a minimum: https://pthree.org/2012/12/04/zfs-administration-part-i-vdevs/ It may be 8 years old, but it's substantially still correct. -dsr-
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