2015 August

Reshuffling ZFS pool storage on the fly

Published by Jim Salter // August 16th, 2015

If you’re new here: Sanoid is an open-source storage management project, built on top of the OpenZFS filesystem and Linux KVM hypervisor, with the aim of providing affordable, open source, enterprise-class hyperconverged infrastructure. Most of what we’re talking about today boils down to “managing ZFS storage” – although Sanoid’s replication management tool Syncoid does make the operation a lot less complicated. Recently, I deployed two Sanoid appliances to a new customer in Raleigh, NC. When […]

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  • One of my pet peeves is people talking about zfs “striping” writes across a pool. It doesn’t help any that zfs core developers use this terminology too – but it’s sloppy and not really correct. ZFS distributes writes among all the vdevs in a pool.  If your vdevs all have the same amount of free space available, this will resemble a simple striping action closely enough.  But if you have different amounts of free space on different […]