Re:ZFS 2.3.0 released with ZFS raidz expansion
by mshroyer on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @08:04AM
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I use it on a NAS for:
- Confidence in my long-term storage of some data I care about, as zpool scrub protects against bit rot
- Cheap snapshots that provide both easy checkpoints for work saved to my network share, and resilience against ransomware attacks against my other computers' backups to my NAS
- Easy and efficient (zfs send) replication to external hard drives for storage pool backup
- Built-in and ergonomic encryption
And it's really pretty easy to use. I started with FreeNAS (now TrueNAS), but eventually switched to just running FreeBSD + ZFS + Samba on my file server because it's not that complicated.
- Confidence in my long-term storage of some data I care about, as zpool scrub protects against bit rot
- Cheap snapshots that provide both easy checkpoints for work saved to my network share, and resilience against ransomware attacks against my other computers' backups to my NAS
- Easy and efficient (zfs send) replication to external hard drives for storage pool backup
- Built-in and ergonomic encryption
And it's really pretty easy to use. I started with FreeNAS (now TrueNAS), but eventually switched to just running FreeBSD + ZFS + Samba on my file server because it's not that complicated.