
110: Resorting to Extraordinary Means
Work is underway on OpenZFS Mastery.
ZFS can run on anything the operating system presents as a block device. The most common are disks. Spinning rust, SSD, NVMe? Sure. Virtual disk files stored on another filesystem? If that’s what you’ve got, ZFS will cope with the extra overhead and with the right settings can still protect your data. USB flash drives? The performance will be terrible, but maybe you don’t care. Memory disks? Uh… presumably you have a reason for wanting a robust ephemeral filesystem, but fine, I guess? We won’t delve into specific differences between physical media types…
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