This post is just combining the information from Ubuntu 16.04 Root on ZFS and Encrypted ZFS Ubuntu Installation. First, start up your target machine using an Ubuntu Live ISO. When you’ll see the desktop, just press Ctrl + Alt + F1 and login with ubuntu and blank password. Let’s prepare the system for SSH, as things are much easier there. You can also skip this and do things locally, of course. Read more

Today i was stumbling upon ZFS in Docker Docs. The ZFS on Linux (ZoL) port is healthy and maturing. However, at this point in time it is not recommended to use the zfs Docker storage driver for production use unless you have substantial experience with ZFS on Linux. I do have, so let’s try things out. I’m not installting any Ubuntu ZFS thingy, just grabbed one of my lab Proxmox installations with ZFS builtin. Read more

Introduction Besides many existing tools, i’ve discovered znapzend to be a very powerful tool to manage automatic snapshots including retention and cleanup for time bases snapshot plans. I’m using it with the Proxmox builtin ZFS on Linux to create snaphots and copy them to local and remote disks. This allows me to build some pseudo HA cluster without maintaining things like Ceph as i have the VM filesystems available on other machines. Read more

To allow Check_MK to inventorize and fetch data for the zfs_arc_cache plugin, just create a file like /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/plugins/zfs_arc_cache with the content from below and make it executable. #!/bin/sh echo "<<<zfs_arc_cache>>>" cat /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats | tail -n +3 | awk '{print $1" = "$NF}' You then should get some nice graphs showing all the stats.

Recently, i was trying to setup a SAMBA4 domain controller inside a LXC VM on Proxmox using ZFS. Kind a lot of fancy buzzwords and acronyms ;) However, domain provision failed due to missing acl flag on filesystem: Realm [LAN]: LAN.EXAMPLE.COM Domain [LAN]: Server Role (dc, member, standalone) [dc]: DNS backend (SAMBA_INTERNAL, BIND9_FLATFILE, BIND9_DLZ, NONE) [SAMBA_INTERNAL]: DNS forwarder IP address (write 'none' to disable forwarding) [1.2.3.4]: Administrator password: Retype password: Looking up IPv4 addresses Looking up IPv6 addresses No IPv6 address will be assigned Setting up share. Read more