A ZFS Masterclass with Tom Lawrence

In part 2, Tom Lawrence of @LAWRENCESYSTEMS gives us an absolute masterclass in ZFS, answers some audience questions, talks about some of his favorite open-source projects, and opines about the shift away from the cloud back to self hosting.

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*Show Topics:*
0:30 The Billion Dollar Filesystem
3:39 ZFS Ram requirements
5:15 ZFS Data Integrity and checksums explained
8:14 ZFS Caching with ARC
18:26 Should your media shares be in a zpool on ZFS?
20:56 ZFS vdev setups and considerations
24:14 RAIDz1, z2 and z3
28:45 Expanding ZFS Storage and potential data loss scenarios
30:46 Rsync vs ZFS replication
33:24 What is the maximum recommended drives to put in a vdev?
40:12 Exploring new technologies in ZFS for business and homelabbers
50:31 VMs on ZFS: Zvols and vdisks
52:42 User questions
59:06 Best practices for setting up a NAS with ZFS
1:01:15 Favorite Open Source projects
1:09:03 The shift from cloud services to self hosting

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[blindside]

Man, two of my all time favorite creators. This was a great show thanks for putting it together!

[blainebrodka]

I apriciate all the content both of you produce, I’ve learned so much from you guys

[BigBoxLittleBox]

Another great Uncast session - thanks to Tom & Ed for taking the time to film, edit and upload. 👍

[scratchanitch]

Have been a huge fan of ZFS since its origins on Sun Solaris. But I think you may be overstating the checksum protection as a reason not to care about ECC. If a bit gets flipped before the checksum is calculated, the checksum won't help you. It's probably a very minor issue for almost all users, but thought it worth mentioning.

[IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Good videos Ed and Tom Thanks for always sharing with us!💖👍😎JP

[Drkayb]

Excellent video, guys. Learned a lot 👍

[Mofarocker]

Wow, what a nice Guy with so much knowledge! Go on, and have maybe more Free time you earned it!

[colydeane]

Great show, thanks for that. Did anyone else notice Tom's subtle audio stuttering/popping?

[TheScorpio]

oh man I didnt know you guys released this, two of my fav creators :D

[Koop]

I wonder what he thinks about OneFS

extremely informative talk! Thanks for this!

[mbe]

My body, and server, are so damn ready for version 7 :O.

[Jamesaepp]

Can someone link the video around the dual-backplane ZFS system (if I understood that right)? I'd like to hear more. I'd try to search Tom's back catalogue but I'm .... what's the word .... lazy.

[seapanda-]

Can you restrict a pool from being loaded into the cache and just have it read from storage every time? Media files for example.

[AshtonClemens]

I use rclone set to use 32 worker processes for senarios with lots of files.

[ZealousDragon]

So, @38:11 you had my full attention since you were describing my exact environment. Unfortunately, you never gave WHAT was the better solution for said scenario. Just using Unraid for PleX and a lot of 4K movies. Its been about 3yrs since I looked at changing over from a Windows setup with 24 drives. Now that I lost a drive and all its I had planned on going to the 32 (all 8TB but a mixture of WD and Seagate) with 2 parity and using NVMe quad card with 4x 1TB drives for cache. Thanks for everyone's time and great video, again.

[Benbacc]

Leading up to 24:20... I couldn't tell if he doesn't know what he's talking about... or if he is just saying "mirrors" and means "stripes", or "Striped mirrors" (RAID 10). Because, adding two drives at a time, and of those two, one mirrors the other, well... either can die. For any pair. You're only in trouble if you loose two in the same pair. Thats how RAID works anyways, maybe there is ZFS jargon i'm not aware of...

[Equality-and-Liberty]

Ed his voice reminds me of Spaceinvader1. I don't know if it is the same person

[GrayMaxine-zz]

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