Beating $3k SSD with $2k HDD?
A.K.A. Practical ZFS application on USTC Mirrors. A writeup of the talk I gave at Nanjing University this August.
Migrating Ubuntu onto ZFS
As part of a planned disk migration, I decided to move my Ubuntu installation from a traditional ext4 setup to ZFS. I did a lot of preparation and research, but things went much smoother than I had...
Understanding ZFS block sizes
ZFS is about the most complex filesystem for single-node storage servers. Coming with its sophistication is its equally confusing “block size”, which is normally self-evident on common filesystems ...