Category Archives: Storage

Important note Before you start, keep in mind that the choosen name will also be the mount point from root. So if you call the raidz device “storagebox”, it will be auto-mounted as /storagebox. Also, for the official ZFS documentation, go to the OpenZFS project website. Basic installation First install the requirements dnf install epel-release kernel-devel dnf install https://zfsonlinux.org/epel/zfs-release-2-3$(rpm –eval “%{dist}”).noarch.rpm dnf install zfs Now ensure ZFS gets loaded on boot Create drive Create a ZFS raidz2 pool (assuming RAID6 alike setup, use raidz1 for RAID5 alike) Now create, if applicable, the LOGs cache (this will be a RAID1 alike mirror) Statistics See advanced statistics with the zpool status and zpool iostat command zpool status zpool iostat zpool iostat extended Drive scrubbing Use this to auto-scrub the drives once a week Replace a faulty disk After every command, zpool status will show you what it actually did. Place the faulty…

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