Anyone have thoughts or experience with ZoL in a practical sense, or simply some feedback for a novice? Debian family stuff continues to be my preference and comfort zone, just curious what the experts have to think about this promising project.
I dabbled with FreeNAS briefly, but was sort of turned off by the pitchfork and torch waving community and ultimately ended up reprovisioning my intended HP Z420 FreeNAS box into a second hypervisor / compute host and haven’t looked back since. I respect their passion and dedication, but it’s difficult for a beginner to break through that glass ceiling.
TL;DR – This incremental release was primarily bug fixes.
My apologies in advance if I’ve inadvertently pressed any buttons, my goal here is to simply engage in a dialogue, hopefully learn a few things in the process. Thanks to @wendell and @ryan for the outstanding community.
Others have been using ZoL successfully, but personally, I’m holding off until .8 hits Ubuntu. I just don’t trust something as complex and critical as ZFS without native support. And versions <.8 were missing some features (TRIM).
That said, I am excited to see FreeBSD rebase on ZoL and I think ZFS as a whole will benefit greatly from that consolidation. Might give FreeNAS 12 a few more months than usual to work through issues before I adopt though.
My only complaint is how the drivers are built for the kernel, at least under Fedora.
Anytime the zfs or kernel package upgrades I reboot to a broken system. Easy enough to fix with the dkms install script but still a bummer. This has been going on since F24, before that it worked pretty easy.