On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 07:49:48PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
Unlike BTRFS, you can expect every feature of ZFS to just work. It may be a total PITA to get it working, it may not be something you even want to
ZFS just works, and I've never found it to be a PITA at all. I've been using it since around 2010. * `apt-get install zfs-dkms zfsutils-linux` (and optionally zfs-zed and zfsnap) is no big deal. It's no more trouble than installing anything else. * non-rootfs storage just works - no hassle, no fuss, no drama. Couldn't be easier...certainly a lot less work/hassle than LVM and/or mdam + ext4 or xfs. * getting linux to boot from ZFS requires some work (unless your distro supports it natively, like Ubuntu). A few hours of reading and about the same of careful, methodical work the first time you do it. IMO it's worth the effort just for snapshots & zfs send backups of the rootfs. All the other ZFS features are just gravy.
use (EG ZFS control of Samba configuration), but it will work if you do the right thing.
I've never used that. Or the auto-NFS stuff. I Never saw any need to try it since I was already running NFS and Samba - continuing to use what I already had was no trouble at all :) I don't really care about samba, but one of these days I should look into doing NFS exports just by setting an attribute on a dataset in zfs. For now, editing /etc/exports is easy enough. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>