Posted on Fri 25 September 2020 in arch • Tagged with arch, zfs
ZFS is both a filesystem and a volume manager. If you have extra RAM in your system it will increase the read speed of your system dramatically by caching the system's most-used files in RAM.
A simple way to check the data integrity of a ZFS pool is by scrubbing the data. This process goes through all of the data and ensures it can be read.
To start a scrub you can run the command:
$ zpool scrub <pool>
If you would like to stop a …
Posted on Fri 10 March 2017 in Linux • Tagged with linux, arch, zfs
The last setup of this machine was an UNRAID install with virtual machines using PCI passthrough. For this setup I am going to run Arch Linux with a root install on ZFS. The root install will allow snapshots of the entire operating system.
Posted on Wed 08 March 2017 in Linux • Tagged with linux, arch, zfs
Adding ZFS to the iso can save you some time when you are experimenting with the setup as you will not have to add the repository and install each time you restart the machine this way.
# switch to root
$ sudo -i or su root
# Install archiso
$ pacman -S …