A year ago I set up Ubuntu server with 3 ZFS pools on my server, normally I don’t make copies of very large files but today I was making a copy of a ~30GB directory and I saw in rsync that the transfer doesn’t exceed 3mb/s (cp is also very slow).

What is the best file system that “just works”? I’m thinking of migrating everything to ext4

EDIT: I really like the automatic pool recovery feature in ZFS, has saved me from 1 hard drive failure so far

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    Most filesystems should “just work” these days.

    Why are you blaming the filesystem here when you haven’t ruled out other issues yet? If you have a drive failing a new FS won’t help. Check out “smartctl” to see if it reports errors in your drives.

    • KptnAutismus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      they may be using really slow hard drives or an SSD without DRAM.

      or maybe a shitty network switch?

      maybe the bandwidth is used up by a torrent box?

      there’s a lot of possible causes.

    • Merlin404@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      That ive learnt the hard way it dosent 😅 have a Ubuntu server with unifi network in it, thats now full in inodes 😅 the positive thing, im forced to learn a lot in Linux 😂

  • Unyieldingly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    ZFS is by far the best just use TrueNAS, Ubuntu is crap at supporting ZFS, also only set your pool’s VDEV 6-8 wide.

    • Trincapinones@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I was thinking about switching to debian (all that I host is in docker so that’s why), but the weird thing is that it was working perfectly 1 month ago

      • Unyieldingly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Maybe your HBA is having issues? or a Drive is Failing? have you done a memtest? you may need to do system wide tests, it can even be a PSU failing or a software Bug.

        also TrueNAS is built with Docker they use it heavily something like 106 apps, Debian has good ZFS support, but you will end up doing a lot of unneeded work using Debian unless you keep it simple.

  • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    10 months ago

    XFS has “just worked” for me for a very long time now on a variety of servers and desktop systems.

  • nezbyte@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    10 months ago

    MergerFS + Snapraid is a really nice way to turn ext4 mounts into a single entry point NAS. OpenMediaVault has some plugins for setting this up. Performance wise it will max out the drive of whichever one you are using and you can use cheap mismatched drives.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    10 months ago

    Use zfs sync instead of rsync. If it’s still slow, it’s probably SMR drives.