[pve-devel] ZFS alternatives

Andreas Steinel a.steinel at gmail.com
Sun Feb 25 13:42:28 CET 2018


On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta
<gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> wrote:
> In example, you can add/remove single disks
> You can change from any raid level to any raid level on the fly with no
> downtime or loss of redundancy
> You can grow /shrink a volume

Good points, especially the shrink that, that does indeed currently
not work in ZFS. Yet I have to say, I'd never added a single disk in
an enterprise setup nor changed a RAID level on the fly. How often did
you do the latter? I just add at least one shelf to existing storage
boxes.



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