ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. Starting with Proxmox VE 3.4, the native Linux kernel port of the ZFS file system is introduced as optional file system and also as an additional selection for the root file system. There is no need for manually compile ZFS modules – all packages are included.
By using ZFS, its possible to achieve maximum enterprise features with low budget hardware, but also high performance systems by leveraging SSD caching or even SSD only setups. ZFS can replace cost intense hardware raid cards by moderate CPU and memory load combined with easy management.
- Easy configuration and management with Proxmox VE GUI and CLI.
- Reliable
- Protection against data corruption
- Data compression on file system level
- Snapshots
- Copy-on-write clone
- Various raid levels: RAID0, RAID1, RAID10, RAIDZ-1, RAIDZ-2 and RAIDZ-3
- Can use SSD for cache
- Self healing
- Continuous integrity checking
- Designed for high storage capacities
- Protection against data corruption
- Asynchronous replication over network
- Open Source
- Encryption
Proxmox 5.4 default ZFS setting
# zpool get all NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool size 1.36T - rpool capacity 0% - rpool altroot - default rpool health ONLINE - rpool guid 13046496262165784879 - rpool version - default rpool bootfs rpool/ROOT/pve-1 local rpool delegation on default rpool autoreplace off default rpool cachefile - default rpool failmode wait default rpool listsnapshots off default rpool autoexpand off default rpool dedupditto 0 default rpool dedupratio 1.00x - rpool free 1.36T - rpool allocated 1.99G - rpool readonly off - rpool ashift 12 local rpool comment - default rpool expandsize - - rpool freeing 0 - rpool fragmentation 0% - rpool leaked 0 - rpool multihost off default rpool checkpoint - - rpool load_guid 7860430000379292497 - rpool autotrim off default rpool [email protected]_destroy enabled local rpool [email protected]_bpobj active local rpool [email protected]_compress active local rpool [email protected]_vdev_crash_dump enabled local rpool [email protected]_histogram active local rpool [email protected]_txg active local rpool [email protected]_birth active local rpool [email protected]_dataset active local rpool [email protected]_data active local rpool [email protected] enabled local rpool [email protected]_limits enabled local rpool [email protected]_blocks enabled local rpool [email protected]_dnode enabled local rpool [email protected] enabled local rpool [email protected] enabled local rpool [email protected] enabled local rpool [email protected]_accounting active local rpool [email protected] enabled local rpool [email protected]_quota active local rpool [email protected]_removal enabled local rpool [email protected]_counts enabled local rpool [email protected]_checkpoint enabled local rpool [email protected]_v2 active local rpool [email protected]_classes enabled local rpool [email protected]_defer enabled local rpool [email protected]_v2 enabled local [email protected]:~# zpool get all|grep com rpool comment - default rpool [email protected]_compress active local
Home Networking: 100TB 10Gbit Server – Installing Proxmox and basic ZFS tutorial
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS:_Tips_and_Tricks
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage:_ZFS
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-sysadmin.html#chapter_zfs