Advanced ZFS Snapshots
In our previous articles, we introduced you to the basics of ZFS snapshot management, and explained concepts such as creating OpenZFS snapshots, restoring files from a snapshot, and deleting snapshots.
With this article, we dive a bit deeper into OpenZFS snapshot management with snapshot holds, clone creation and promotion, and assigning permissions to snapshot-related operations.
Choosing the right ZFS pool layout
Setting up a ZFS pool involves a number of permanent decisions that will affect the performance, cost, and reliability of your data storage systems, so you really want to understand all the options at your disposal for making the right choices from the beginning.
Let’s talk about mirror vdevs, RAID-Z or dRAID to better understand real redundant data storage.