Storage: ZFS
How to install ZFS-fuse under Proxmox
(Tested with Kernel 2.6.32)
apt-get install build-essential libaio-dev libattr1-dev libacl1-dev libz-dev libz-dev libfuse-dev libfuse2 scons libssl-dev wget -nd http://zfs-fuse.net/releases/0.6.0/zfs-fuse-0.6.0.tar.bz2 tar jxvf zfs-fuse-0.6.0.tar.bz2 cd zfs-fuse-0.6.0 cd src scons scond install
Fire up ZFS-fuse daemon
/usr/local/sbin/zfs-fuse
Create Zpool
zpool create -m /var/lib/vz/images2 /dev/sdb
Create ZFS
zfs create images2/109
ZFS clone a vm 109 to vm 110
zfs snapshot images2/109@master zfs clone images2/109@master images2/110
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
zfs works much better using Debian/GNU kFreeBSD then fuse.
after installing the system to kvm or hardware:
- add some disks . in KVM i was only able to get ide to work.
- the scsi disks look like:
ls /dev/ad* /dev/ad10 /dev/ad10s1 /dev/ad10s2 /dev/ad11 /dev/ad12 /dev/ad13
- per http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide - if I read it right - use entire disk not slices for zfs (I assume slices = partitions).
- if the disks have partition tables, then clear them. just not the operating system disk! I used fdisk to clear the tables. This may not be necessary , if it is not then please delete this part.
fdisk /dev/ad11 o w
then same for ad12 and ad13
- install this
aptitude install zfsutils
- make a pool
zpool create -f zfs-pool /dev/ad11 /dev/ad12 /dev/ad13
df | grep zfs-pool zfs-pool zfs 1.4T 18K 1.4T 1% /zfs-pool