Join Dan Langille as he takes you through the basics of ZFS including:
- A short history of the origins
- An overview of how ZFS works
- Replacing a failed drive
- Why you don’t want a RAID card
- Scalability
- Data integrity (detection of file corruption)
- Why you’ll love snapshots
- Sending of filesystems to remote servers
- Creating a mirror
- How to create a ZFS array with multiple drives which can lose up to 3 drives without loss of data.
- Mounting datasets anywhere in other datasets
- Using zfs to save your current install before upgrading it
- Simple recommendations for ZFS arrays
- Why single drive ZFS is better than no ZFS
- No, you don’t need ECC
- Quotas
- Monitoring ZFS
The one-hour session will take place at 10am PDT/17:00 UTC at https://live.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/freebsdfriday/
