Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast

Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by antman on Friday December 18, 2015 @10:57AM (#10759066)

OK so how do we setup a fresh ubuntu all with zfs?

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Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by barkingcat on Friday December 18, 2015 @11:50AM (#10759379)

ZFS on linux is not an undertaking that can be easily explained in a hn commment. People have posted links to alternatives below.

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Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by jlgaddis on Friday December 18, 2015 @01:53PM (#10760170)

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong because I haven't used ZFS-on-Linux (my remaining Linux boxes are slowly being converted to all FreeBSD) but I don't think you can do "/ on ZFS" on Ubuntu since ZFS support is via a loadable kernel module (i.e., it's not in the mainline kernel -- and apparently never will be).

You can install on, e.g., ext4, and then create /home as ZFS and then take advantage of all that ZFS offers (such as sending full/incremental snapshots like this article talks about). Or you could put your databases on ZFS and use snapshots to back them up, and so on.

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Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by aeorgnoieang on Friday December 18, 2015 @12:00PM (#10759449)

I don't remember the exact sequence of commands I entered to setup ZFS on several of my Ubuntu (14.04) boxes, but it certainly wasn't hard.

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Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by moviuro on Friday December 18, 2015 @11:29AM (#10759254)

You use FreeBSD + an hypervisor on top?

Or you try ZOL (ZFS on Linux): good luck!

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Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by brunoqc on Friday December 18, 2015 @11:34AM (#10759284)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/ZFS

I'm not sure if it's usable now and if it will be good with 16.04.

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Re:Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast by rincebrain on Friday December 18, 2015 @12:20PM (#10759551)

I've been extremely astonished with how stable ZFS on Linux has been for me - I remember when it was unusable.

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