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Updated August 2026: LVM on top of ZFS is still an unusual but workable compromise when a consumer only speaks LVM/iSCSI. Be careful with alignment, ashift, and double caching. On modern kernels, confirm ZoL +...
Configure zfs to start before proxmox or openstack If you followed my previous articles: Native ZFS for Linux on Proxmox or Native ZFS for Linux on Openstack and encountered some problem that daemons seems fail...
Glusterfs on top of linux zfs Did you ever wanted to know how to setup Glusterfs on top of linux zfs or other filesystems? In this article i will describe this in a few easy...
Updated August 2026: ZFS ARC using “all the RAM” is still expected behaviour. Cap ARC with zfs_arc_max (module param or /etc/modprobe.d/), watch arc_summary, and size for your workload instead of fighting ZFS with random sysctl...
Updated August 2026: OpenStack release names in this post are historical, but the ZFS-on-Linux operational notes (datasets, ARC pressure, virtio disks) still apply if you run ZoL under a hypervisor or cloud node today. Prefer...