zsys
ZSys daemon and client for zfs systems (by ubuntu)
zsysctl-manual-gc
Manual zsys garbage collection script. (by Venomtek)
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15 | 1 | |
298 | 15 | |
0.3% | - | |
5.4 | 10.0 | |
18 days ago | about 3 years ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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zsys
Posts with mentions or reviews of zsys.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.
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How to maintain 20% minimum free space on bpool
From this bug report on github, here is a clear explanation of the problem:
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The Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop Is Not Looking Good
This is a good thing for ZFS and public perception of ZFS. Ubuntu has made some very poor choices with how they've integrated ZFS -
* zsys has both implementation and design flaws. They utilize two zpools - one with limited feature flags that GRUB can use and one general pool, and then try to tightly couple datasets between those two pools while coordinating snapshots. zsys routinely runs a system out of space due to not cleaning up snapshots. It's been known to destroy user data as well.
https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys/issues/196
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Desktop OS with ZFS
Example: https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys/issues/155
- Don't use ZSYS (on Ubuntu 22.04)
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Backup Solution: fully automated, complete system backup, incremental and with web GUI functionality (snapshots / history)?
Heard of it, but I have no idea how it works and if I must install ubuntu server completely new. After a bit googling it seems dead? “It seems the project has been dead for months now. What going on?” https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys/issues/213
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Ubuntu 22.04 Root on ZFS
Ubuntu isn't my preferred OS these days, but I've had excellent experiences with it's ZFS root installs as well as it's included zsys: https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys
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zfs on root with 22.04 without zsys
Re: things I've actually dealt with, see -- #172
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Moving rpool/USERDATA to separate pool
I even filed a very polite GH issue about how zsys doesn't handle other systems/sanoid snapshots well, to which I got no response. However, a previous response to a user with the same issue was "Turn that other method of snapshot-ing off and delete your other snapshots" which, I'm sorry, just doesn't make any sense to say to any ZFS user -- "Pound sand and delete some of your data, then maybe it will work." Say what?
- Canonical puts zsys on life support (2.5 Admins)
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Help with ZFS on Ubuntu
https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys/issues/112 - This could be an incompatibility with the way docker stores volumes, but this looks like it should've been fixed a while ago?
zsysctl-manual-gc
Posts with mentions or reviews of zsysctl-manual-gc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.
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How to maintain 20% minimum free space on bpool
Finally, here is a nice script that I have been using to remove old snapshots and free up space on bpool every time it fills up.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing zsys and zsysctl-manual-gc you can also consider the following projects:
zectl - ZFS Boot Environment manager for Linux
ubuntu-server-zfsbootmenu
simple-ubuntu-installer - simple encrypted zfs ubuntu installer
zfsbootmenu - ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
nix
ALEZ - Arch Linux Easy ZFS installer