{"id":189,"date":"2010-06-09T12:02:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timbrison.wordpress.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2014-02-01T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T10:06:42","slug":"zfs-holy-grail-still-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/06\/zfs-holy-grail-still-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"ZFS Holy Grail still on hold&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/screenshot-171.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-190 aligncenter pic\" alt=\"screenshot.171\" src=\"http:\/\/uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/screenshot-171-300x239.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/screenshot-171-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/screenshot-171-375x300.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/screenshot-171.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ZFS: what&#8217;s not to like?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I can not wait for the some form of ZFS to hit the Windows arena. For the uninitiated ZFS is Sun Microsystem&#8217;s new filesystem, that is simply better (on paper) than anything else. Period.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is this guy on about?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, with a ZFS filesystem, you can have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Very <\/strong><\/em>simple administration.<\/li>\n<li>Simply massive volume sizes.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Self healing<\/strong><\/em>: end to end checksums recover bad blocks &#8211; automatically, seamlessly in the background!!<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic capacity increases: on a <em><strong>live <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">production <\/span>system, you can simply issue a single command to grow the disk space.<\/li>\n<li>RAIDZ &#8211; RAID5 replacement without the write-hole issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are other virtues, but for me,<em><strong> the real killer is that it&#8217;s a self-healing, error correcting filesystem<\/strong><\/em>. For years, as a photographer, I have had to create very elaborate systems to overcome &#8216;bit-rot&#8217; (slow corruption of data over time) wreaking havoc with my images.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ZFS appears to have solved this issue in a single stroke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moreover, I could add extra storage to the ZFS &#8216;pool&#8217; easily with a\u00a0 simple command. Try doing that on a RAID5.<\/p>\n<p>However, ZFS is only really fully implemented on Solaris &#8211; an operating system I have little experience with &#8211; worse my entire workflow is based upon Windows applications&#8230;so I guess I will have to wait for Microsoft to come up with a ZFS alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Or switch to Solaris?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZFS: what&#8217;s not to like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22,52,68],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-tech","tag-filesystem","tag-solaris","tag-zfs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}