[kwlug-disc] Old Man Yells at ZFS (was: Docker Host Appliance)
Doug Moen
doug at moens.org
Tue Jan 17 08:05:53 EST 2023
> Honestly, though, we shouldn't have to watch a podcast, or study vdev
> calculators to figure out how to add drives effectively. We should be
> able to say "Here's two new drives" and have the existing raid-z expand
> to use them. We have this with mdadm, we have this with lvm, we have
> this with btrfs. It should be in zfs.
Agreed. This is why I just gave up and set up a single mirror vdev in a single zpool.
ZFS could be so much easier to use for the home user. The new RAIDz expansion feature is a step in the right direction, but getting everything we want is probably many years out.
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