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126: Low Distress Tolerance
I finished the OpenZFS Mastery chapter on volumes earlier this week. Zvols support sparse volumes, also known as thin provisioning or overcommitting storage. A sparse volume is a volume that reserves less space than the volume actually needs. Sparse volum
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125: A Useful Quirk
I'm trying to finish up the OpenZFS Mastery chapter on disk space use today. Well, my part of it. I'm planning to dump-delegate, delegate-the section on deduplication to Allan. When you have a co-author expert, use them. Zstd offers compression levels fro
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124: Clones Can Grow
I'm writing about space usage OpenZFS Mastery. ZFS offers tools to transparently increase the amount of data you can fit on a disk. Rather than requiring the system administrator to compress and decompress individual files, ZFS uses efficient compression
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123: Excuses Weighed Nothing Against Ice
Probably jinxing myself by posting this, but: here's a chunk from Twisted Presents. Three nights ago had been the Longest Dark, the strongest night of the year. A night for the clan to come together and declare the year's struggles, to mark the end of feu
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122: Gawk at Others' Past Mistakes
OpenZFS Mastery is starting to pick up momentum. Don't look at it too closely. You might scare it. First, note how ridiculously wide this VDEV is. A fourteen-disk VDEV will have suboptimal performance and experience slow death by fragmentation. Also, the
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