Questions tagged [zfsonlinux]
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What are the differences between mountpoint=legacy and mountpoint=none for ZFS datasets?
I have noted that some tutorials (ex.: Arch Linux Root on ZFS) use mountpoint=legacy while others (ex.: Install Arch Linux on ZFS) use mountpoint=none for what the datasets used as a containers for ...
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How do I import ZFS pool from a crashed system?
I had one ZFS pool attached to a system that crashed. I was looking for ways to bring that pool to a new system however it looked like I need to use zfs export first, given I do not have access to the ...
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Listing a directory (and entering) on ZFS takes a few seconds the first time? (re: sleep/idle?)
I have a few ZFS ZPOOLs configured:
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
backup 1.81T 1.41M 1.81T - - 0% 0% 1.00x ...
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How can I make Samba's vfs fruit work with large macOS extended attributes on a Linux kernel?
I have a macOS client (12.6.7) with APFS filesystem that supports large extended attributes (one attribute value being over 68 MB in a test).
I have a NAS server with Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 LTS with ...
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ZFS I/O Error, Kernel Panic during import
I'm running a raidz1-0 (RAID5) setup with 4 data 2TB SSDs.
During midnight, somehow 2 of my data disks experience some I/O error (from /var/log/messages).
When I investigated in the morning, the zpool ...
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Is using ZFS L2ARC (secondarycache) cache, without ARC (primarycache) possible?
I Have a "home lab" system (Ubuntu 22.04 on i3-9300 with 32G ecc-ram, 10G of witch is dedicated to hugepages) currently holding 2 zfs raidz1 pools, one with 3x2TB WD-RED and nvme as log and ...
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zpool won't import after crash while resilvering
With triple-mirrored vdevs, I'm really not sure why I can't re-import anyway. There was also a read cache vdev, but that is no longer connected, though that doesn't seem to be the issue. I've all ...
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Mount Windows 11 WSL2 zfs pool at login before any programs load
I want to be able to mount zfs pool in a WSL2 Ubuntu distro to make it transparently available for use by native Windows programs. I have created a custom kernel with zfs enabled with help from this ...
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Is it possible to automatically take zfs snapshots on boot or shutdown?
I want to create a convenient solution for full system (root-on-ZFS) backups.
The idea is to create a snapshot of the whole system on startup (before any writes to FS) or as a last step of shutdown ...
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Can ZFS and BtrFS handle files larger than physical discs?
Are ZFS and BtrFS able to handle files that are larger than one physical disk so that such a huge file spans over multiple physical discs?
I consider lifting up my file server to a VM. Currently the ...
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ZFS fixing improper drive replace
I recently detected failing hard-drive in my ZFS raid-5 array. So i bought drive, shut-down & replaced failing one. I'm afraid I should have removed failing drive from the pool first. It is ...
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Replace ZFS in use hot spare
Here is the current status of my zpool
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
store ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ...
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ZFS beginner questions. Activating passkey, etc
I am on a journey of migrating a Windows/NTFS backup to Ubuntu and natively encrypted ZFS. As a Windows veteran with zero Linux experience, most guides seem like Greek to me. Successful progress yet:
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Docker still using zfs storage driver after re-installing to ext4 partitioned zvol
Disclaimer: This is cross-posted on reddit but to no success and as I am quite desperate to get all my services up and running again, I now turn to you...
I had docker installed on my server (running ...
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ZFS prevents server to shut down as it keeps disk active
I have a small home sever running with Debian Buster where I have a ZFS filesystem (ZFS: Loaded module v0.7.12-2+deb10u2, ZFS pool version 5000, ZFS filesystem version 5) with a RAID.
As the server is ...
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