Re: Zfs Guide

Wow lots of information and I need it. Thanks for this community and willingness to help out other BSDer's

Joe B

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On November 5, 2022 at 21:11 GMT, David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:

On 11/5/22 12:15, Joe B wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> Sorry for all the questions but i want to start somehwere, the forums
> take a while for me to get approved but it seems very friendly here.
>
> So when i installed freeBSD about 5 days ago i noticed that it auto did
> ZFS pool and everything didn't know why but i went with it. Trying to
> understand it i looked online for some guides and the zfs fs seems very
> intresting, snapshots, compression everything. It seems that it was
> really made for two drives not one. i kinda understand if my internal
> hdd goes out then i would have a backup.
>
> Currently setup a VM with freebsd and want to test zfs. should i make
> two disk hard drives in the VM to test or should i be able to just play
> with one ?

I suggest creating one virtual disk for the VM system drive and
installing FreeBSD there. Once FreeBSD is up and running, create
additional virtual disks for ZFS experiments -- creating pools, creating
filesystems and volumes, taking snapshots of datasets, rolling back
datasets from snapshots, creating clones, replication, simulated
disasters and recovery, etc..

> Also the only guides that are offical are the handbook, New and old and
> other guides i found.
>
> 1. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/zfs/
>
> 2, https://is.gd/GGTjK8
>
> 3. https://somedudesays.com/2021/08/the-basic-guide-to-working-with-zfs/
>
> 4. https://wiki.debian.org/ZFS
>
> 5. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS
>
> 6. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ZFS
>
> Don't know if we are suppose to post links that aren't part of freeBSD
> here but i'm learning everyday if we can't just tell me so i know in the
> future.
>
> What do you guys recommend?

"The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" is the
definitive academic text:

https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/design-and-implementation-of-the-freebsd-operating-system-the/P200000000463/9780321968975

"Absolute FreeBSD" is my favorite hands-on text:

https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#af3e

Note the FAQ item "Buying Books":

https://mwl.io/faq

"Absolute” titles, Network Flow Analysis, and other No Starch Press
titles – use the coupon code ILUVMICHAEL and buy direct from No Starch
Press. You get 30% off and I get commission. You pay shipping, though,
which eats up the cost savings if you’re in New Zealand."

https://nostarch.com/absfreebsd3

Lucas wrote other titles, including:

https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#fmzfs

https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#fmaz

The Klara and ixSystems web sites have information about FreeBSD and ZFS:

https://klarasystems.com/articles/

https://www.ixsystems.com/white-papers/

David