New to ZFS

[Trooper_ish]

Hi!
There are many ways to set up ZFS pools, depending on the use case.

As you are new, I would recommend not using more than half your capacity till you are comfortable, and making sure you have a copy of the data on the other half.

Then if it all goes wrong, you are not scuppered.

Later on, you might use that storage as an actul backup, once you have the system running fine, and you have practiced recovering from faulted drives and stuff.

There is a good primer series:

Open-ZFS Bootcamp Intro

And a bunch of actual guides on the zfs website:
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/index.html

But personally, I really gained a lot from the books by Allan Jude and Michael Lucas:

Operating Systems

There are a bunch of websites, and even some tips on the forum here:

Looking for a good ZFS tutorial

I’m looking for a good ZFS tutorial that will help me learn and understand it. Everything I seem to find seems to either give direct instructions with no background as to really what or why you are doing this thing. Or goes in the complete opposite direction and is explaining what’s happening internally in so much detail it’s almost as if they’re trying to tell me how to write the code for it. I’d like to learn how to use it properly. I have a proxmox server that is utilizing it (configed from gui) and I believe that I have other projects that could benefit from it as well. I personally run Manjaro so something centered in that would be great but I’ve used Ubuntu and other variants over the years so should be able to translate between distros if I need to.