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zfs
- OpenZFS bug reports for native encryption
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A data corruption bug in OpenZFS?
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/15526#issuecomment-181...
> zpool get all tank | grep bclone
> kc3000 bcloneused 442M
> kc3000 bclonesaved 1.42G
> kc3000 bcloneratio 4.30x
> My understanding is this: If the result is 0 for both bcloneused and bclonesaved then it's safe to say that you don't have silent corruption.
It's a very rare race condition, odds are very low that you were impacted. If you were, you would have noticed (heavy builds with files being moved around where suddenly files are zero).
[0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/917224
[1] https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/15526 (referenced in the article)
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Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?
A couple years ago, I had an idea for convincing a filesystem to go faster using 2 compression steps instead of one. I couldn't see why it wouldn't work, and I also couldn't convince myself it should.
It seems to have worked out. [1]
[1] - https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/f375b23c026aec00cc9527...
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ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/7631
This is a long-standing issue with zvols which affects overall system stability, and has no real solution as of yet.
More details on this discussion: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/6824#issuecomment-1817... . Basically he is too busy to continue developing the encryption features but is able to review the related works.
There is also discussion about using ZFS on LUKS in the same thread: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/6824#issuecomment-1819...
ZFS on top of LUKS seems to have it's own issues though. :(
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Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research results
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15529#pullrequestreview-...
Honestly, ZFS is the best thing on the (Free)BSDs only... On Linux it doesn't even use the page cache, and you conflict severely with L2ARC. I know there's a variety of people who don't care, but still for real users it's not an actual option.
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In OpenZFS and Btrfs, everyone was just guessing
A more "correct" fix has been posted https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15615
Current Master: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/blob/acb33ee1c169bf1c1f687db1...
When I look up the problem, I could only see the issue being discussed, and probably leading to that commit, and then it was not in my current release (2.1) despite several years later. I’m wondering if ZFS still holds that high standard for reliability.
zfsbootmenu
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Bash Debugging
We use a couple nice home-grown functions in ZFSBootMenu to help debug things. We have a zdebug logging function that's peppered liberally throughout the code base - https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme...
Hitting ctrl-t on our main menu will, when booting with debug logging enabled, show a screen like this: https://imgur.com/Ge75zkP
We also have a flamegraph profiling mechanism that can be enabled with https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme... . That will dump data to a serial port, which when re-assembled, can be used to produce a graph like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/master...
Bash is suprisingly flexible.
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Pure Bash Bible
A lot of what's in the Pure Bash Bible is horrifically slow. Many of those things are substantially faster, even when paying the cost of starting a new process, when you use an external and commonly available tool. I wrote a bash performance profiler that outputs data in a format that flamegraph.pl recognizes - it really helped identify where we could improve the performance of ZFSBootMenu.
https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/releases/tag/v1.12.0
Don't fall in the trap of thinking things have to be written entirely in bash; it's okay to use other tools to help fill in the gaps.
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How do I configure the refind.conf and refind_linux.conf (and or config.yaml (for ZFSBootMenu)) files properly when installing Arch Linux with ZFS Native Encryption?
All release assets, including EFI executables and kernel/initramfs pairs, are signed with signify, which provides a simple method for verifying that the contents of the file are as this project intended. Once you've installed signify (that's left as an exercise, although Void Linux provides the signify package for this purpose), just download the desired assets from the ZFSBootMenu release page, download the file sha256.sig alongside it, and run:
Link: https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/wiki/Debian-Buster-installation-with-ESP-on-the-zpool-disk
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How to keep Ubuntu from creating a dozen /var subdirectories?
I think the consensus is that you probably shouldn't be installing a ZFS on root using the native installer anymore. They aren't really maintaining the packages that make that work. Instead the suggestion is to go the zfsbootmenu route of installing.
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Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop's New Installer Set To Ship Without OpenZFS Install Support
You can install following instructions at https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20Bullseye%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html which I've automated with https://github.com/HankB/Linux_ZFS_Root/tree/master/Debian. For scripting, you should also look at https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu. I'd probably go that way if I were starting from scratch.
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Void Linux and root-on-ZFS question
ZBM provides an amazingly useful script in it's wiki here. This runs when a new kernel is updated by xbps and it snapshots your system before the kernel is installed. This creates a boot environment, and via the magic of ZFS boot environments, allows you to rollback any kernel update to a known, working configuration.
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When root on ZFS breaks on Arch Linux
* https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E86824_01/html/E54764/beadm-1m.ht...
> A ZFS boot environment is a bootable clone of the datasets needed to boot the operating system. Creating a BE before performing an upgrade provides a low-cost safeguard: if there is a problem with the update, the system can be rebooted back to the point in time before the upgrade.
* https://klarasystems.com/articles/managing-boot-environments...
Or perhaps:
> In essence, ZFSBootMenu is a small, self-contained Linux system that knows how to find other Linux kernels and initramfs images within ZFS filesystems. When a suitable kernel and initramfs are identified (either through an automatic process or direct user selection), ZFSBootMenu launches that kernel using the kexec command.
- I replaced grub with systemd-boot
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Do I need zsys or are there alternatives?
If you want a ZFS root, look at https://zfsbootmenu.org/. If you want it for Ubuntu specifically, consider Sithuk's script which automates it at https://github.com/Sithuk/ubuntu-server-zfsbootmenu .
What are some alternatives?
root-on-zfs-systemdboot - Dual-boot Root-on-ZFS config for Debian w/ systemd-boot
zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
archiso-zfs - Easily load ZFS kernel module on any Archiso.
7-Zip-zstd - 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard
ramroot - Load root file system to ram during boot.
dracut - dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure
RocksDB - A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
sanoid - These are policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage. (Btrfs support plans are shelved unless and until btrfs becomes reliable.)
zectl - ZFS Boot Environment manager for Linux
snapper - Manage filesystem snapshots and allow undo of system modifications
nonguix
voidvault - Bootstrap Void with FDE