I have recently converted the file system of some of our Samba servers from ext4 to ZFS. The idea was to use ZFS's compression feature to reduce the space some excessingly large files consume which can be easily compressed to take less than 1/10 the space. This works fine. Today we found that a directory … Continue reading Preventing accidental data loss with ZFS →

So I can look it up later: When a drive that is part of a zfs pool fails and has already been physicall replaced in the server. zpool status looks like this: [bash] user@server:~$ zpool status pool: main state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices could not be used because the label is missing or … Continue reading Replacing a failed drive in a zfs pool →