I learnt more than I expected … thanks! Mount point abuse, in particular - makes great sense when spoken (maybe learnt more easily by listening, than by reading). Visual trivia: the small metaslab of sticky tape on the wallpaper behind Allan's right ear.
As a newbie Ubuntu user, who is being not very technical (I am a medic by training) I love my Mate variant on my desktop PC. I think it's the best for those Windows users wanting to transition to a better, robust, customizable OS. I am thinking about implementing ZFS in my home PC: its motherboard and case have decent expansion capabilities for adding more storage which needs to be much better managed than with a hardware RAID or with MS Storage Spaces. I've learned that ZFS is wonderful and super-robust FS so I'm very intrigued. However, I don't have any experience with it. As a newbie Linux user, I'm not particularly comfortable with a command-line use and prefer the GUI apps. Although I've heard that ZFS is pretty easy to manage with a command-line use. I know that there are plenty ZFS NAS OSes out there but I want to run ZFS on my desktop PC natively with some SAMBA or NFS shares enabled. I wondered if there are any decent GUI ZFS utilities exist for Ubuntu which you could recommend?
I don't recommend using ZFS on a desktop. Without ECC RAM, you're putting your data at risk. If you want to use ZFS, your best bet is to set up a NAS, and maybe mount some folders over your network using NFS.
Daniel Hodgson ZFS is already available on Trident and GhostBSD, so it’s probably safe to say it can be used on the Desktop. Whether distros like Ubuntu finally got it right though via ZFS on Linux project is a different matter.
I think that most of the newbies to ZFS would rather appreciate some practical down to earth lessons on how to use the best GUI-based ZFS variant on theirs desktop PCs to start with and get familiar with. This lecture seems not very user-friendly to me as a newbie, IMHO.
There are no GUI's for ZFS (or most tools you'll use as a sysadmin on Linux). I don't mean to come across as pompous, but if you want to become a power user on Linux, you should learn to get comfortable with the terminal/bash.
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I learnt more than I expected … thanks!
Mount point abuse, in particular - makes great sense when spoken (maybe learnt more easily by listening, than by reading).
Visual trivia: the small metaslab of sticky tape on the wallpaper behind Allan's right ear.
What about zfs on a PC with one harddisk ? Or zfs on a PC with one SSD ? zfs for a mysql databse ? zfs for a postgresql database ?
no link to the slides? :(
Sorry to be so late in replying, never saw this comment.
Slides are here: allanjude.com/talks/vBSDCon2015_-_Interesting_ZFS.pdf
+Allan Jude thx, got them somewhere else ;)
How it can be scaled and clustered
This is a great man. (He says Zed).
With an American accent too. Very odd
As a newbie Ubuntu user, who is being not very technical (I am a medic by training) I love my Mate variant on my desktop PC.
I think it's the best for those Windows users wanting to transition to a better, robust, customizable OS.
I am thinking about implementing ZFS in my home PC: its motherboard and case have decent expansion capabilities for adding more storage which needs to be much better managed than with a hardware RAID or with MS Storage Spaces.
I've learned that ZFS is wonderful and super-robust FS so I'm very intrigued.
However, I don't have any experience with it.
As a newbie Linux user, I'm not particularly comfortable with a command-line use and prefer the GUI apps.
Although I've heard that ZFS is pretty easy to manage with a command-line use.
I know that there are plenty ZFS NAS OSes out there but I want to run ZFS on my desktop PC natively with some SAMBA or NFS shares enabled.
I wondered if there are any decent GUI ZFS utilities exist for Ubuntu which you could recommend?
I don't recommend using ZFS on a desktop. Without ECC RAM, you're putting your data at risk. If you want to use ZFS, your best bet is to set up a NAS, and maybe mount some folders over your network using NFS.
Daniel Hodgson ZFS is already available on Trident and GhostBSD, so it’s probably safe to say it can be used on the Desktop. Whether distros like Ubuntu finally got it right though via ZFS on Linux project is a different matter.
How much of all this applies to zfs on Linux rather than free/bsd?
Nearly everything. :)
Awesome!
ZFS needs robust handling of zfs receive. A single bit flip shouldn't prevent you from restoring a zfs send. It's too dangerous to zfs send to tape.
I think that most of the newbies to ZFS would rather appreciate some practical down to earth lessons on how to use the best GUI-based ZFS variant on theirs desktop PCs to start with and get familiar with. This lecture seems not very user-friendly to me as a newbie, IMHO.
There are no GUI's for ZFS (or most tools you'll use as a sysadmin on Linux).
I don't mean to come across as pompous, but if you want to become a power user on Linux, you should learn to get comfortable with the terminal/bash.
ZFS is an advanced subject
If you need a GUI for ZFS, try Freenas or the like. Most of the interesting bits on zfs are done at the command line.
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