It stole all my data. It’s a bit of a clusterfuck of a file system, especially one so old. This article gives a good overview: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linuxs-perpetually-half-finished-filesystem/ It managed to get into a state where it wouldn’t even let me mount it readonly. I even resorted to running commands of which the documentation just said “only run this if you know what you’re doing”, but actually gave no guidance to understand - it was basically a command for the developer to use and noone else. It ddn’t work anyway. Every other system that was using the same disks but with ext4 on their filesystems came back and I was able to fsck them and continue on. I think they’re all still running without issue 6 years later.

For such an old file system, it has a lot of braindead design choices and a huge amount of unreliability.

I used btrfs once. Never again!

The server runs Proxmox and one of the VMs runs as a fileserver. Other VMs and containers do other things.

I won’t be running ZFS on any solid state media, I’m using spinning rust disks meant for NAS use.

My desire to move to ZFS is bitrot prevention and as a result of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55GfAwa8RI

Good point. Having a small VM that just needs the HBA passed through sounds like the best idea so far. More portable and less dependencies.

I’m starting to think this is the way to do it because it loses the dependency on Proxmox to a large degree.

Could this because it’s a RAIDZ-2/3? They will be writing parity as well as data and the usual ZFS checksums. I am running RAID5 at the moment on my HBA card and my limit is definitely the 1Gbit network for file transfers, not the disks. And it’s only me that uses this thing, it sits totally idle 90+% of the time.

Did you have atime on?

What I have now is one VM that has the array volume passed through and the VM exports certain folders for various purposes to other VMs. So for example, my application server VM has read access to the music folder so I can run Emby. Similar thing for photos and shares out to my other PCs etc. This way I can centrally manage permissions, users etc from that one file server VM. I don’t fancy managing all that in Proxmox itself. So maybe I just create the zpool in Proxmox, pass that through to the file server VM and keep the management centralised there.

I’m not intending to run Proxmox on it. I have that running on an SSD, or maybe it’s an NVME, I forget. This will just be for data storage mainly of photos that one VM will manage and NFS share out to other machines.

Dictator over cats? You are so delusional.

Q

Quake Quake II

But maybe U

Unreal Tournament 2004

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has a fantastic soundtrack. Can really push a system to its limits.

If your toaster can’t fit a slice of Warburton’ Toastie comfortably, then the CEO of the toaster company gets toasted to death at the stake.

I still call them Opel Fruits

The past 10 years has been dominated by female solo singers

The only sport that is a predominantly physical exercise (so excluding things like snooker, darts, archery etc) where women could compete competitively against men at an equivilent level in their sport (league 1 men vs league 1 women) would be ultra marathons. Most other sports is so mis-matched you’d end up with some random amateur bloke against an elite woman.

Basically if you’ve gone through male puberty you are vastly different physically from someone who hasn’t.

The fact that American English doesn’t have the word ‘fortnightly’ is incredibly confusing on every level.

Last year I went from a 10 year old Nikon D7100 with 17-55 f/2.8 to a Nikon Z6 with 24-70 f/4 and holy moly there is an insane difference in quality. I was absolutely blown away. If you can afford it I highly recommend getting something newer. It really breathed fresh air in to my photography and got me excited that I can get really sharp photos, even at high ISOs with good tracking.