Why I choose zfs filesystem for my home file server
- Functionality (deduplication, encryption, compression, snapshot, replication, clone, iscsi target builtin, etc)
- Block level checksum (say goodbye to silent data corruption)
- Report read error and corrects it if you have a mirror or parity raid. (must have with ssd technology)
- Use ssd for intelligent “l2arc” caching
- Always consistent on disk
- Good startup to learn about zfs read: The last word in file systems http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/zfs_lc_preso.pdf
- Because it's cool to learn something new
Why don’t choose zfs for file server
- You don’t want to have a dedicated server for storage at home
- For standard home usage a cheap nas with raid1 do the job
- You’re a performance freak and just do sequential read and write and don’t care about silent corruption and zfs functionalities
- You don’t want to invest your time to understand and have fun with zfs
My zfs file server hardware
- Amd x2 5050e 45W
- Motherboard “SAPPHIRE PI-AM2RS780G”
- 8gb ram
- Intel pro 1000/100/10
- 1 x 250gb “For system boot... not in mirror yet”
- 3 x 1.5tb raidz “for data”
- 1 x 40gb intel ssd x25-v “For cache l2arc” Read my benchmark
