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  1. R

    TUTORIAL: Beauty by simplicity, OR one ZFS Snapshot used by 5 Layers of Applications

    This is about ZFS Filesystem and the (not) need to stack multiple layers of ZFS and snapshots, but made to utilize all the functionality from ZFS napshots on the proxmox host. to achieve this fabulous glory of software-engineering i utilized this projects: cv4pve-autosnap and Zamba Fileserver...
  2. MrCalvin

    RHEL LVM RAID does have bit-rot protecting!

    To my surprise LVM mdadm does actually seem to be able to save extra checksum-data to prevent bit-rot/soft corruption. Until now I thought the only way was to go e.g. btrfs or sfz. But I just ran into this article over at RHEL: Using DM integrity with RAID LV Together with thin LVM snapshots...
  3. A

    SOLVED: duplicated zpool via send/recv, disk usage appears to be incorrect

    Solution in post two. TL;DR: it was the compression (which is, of course, almost perfect on a file filled with zeros). I'm trying to find a way to create duplicate zvols (e.g., from a gold VM) without using cloning, which would cause a dependency issue (I'd rather be able to delete the parent...
  4. H

    Getting the ZFS file size including all its snapshots

    Hi All, in ZFS is there any way to calculate snapshot sizes per file, the "per file" is the important part here lets say i have ZFS pool that have 10 vm images (vm image is just a big file from ZFS perspective) and i am snapshoting the whole pool once per day now lets say we have 10 snapshots...