Alpine + Root ZFS?
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Thu, 2017-10-26 13:29
enso
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- 2017-10-26
Apparently you can install Alpine on ZFS! However the documentation hasn't been updated to show how this is accomplished. I seen another user posted this question and it's went unanswered. I'm just curious if anyone can offer any valuable information?
I compared ZFS vs LVM vs XFS and BTRfs for differents setup and projects like KVM and Docker host, but mostly under Debian.
All of these FS/VFS let's you make snapshot but:
- BTRfs is not ready aka still subject of random corruption;
- ZFS require more expertise and resources, but it's really worth it instead of RAID6 and up and it is very fast with ZIL and L2ARC;
Finally I stick with LVM mostly because, it's standard, it let's you make snapshot and you could also add a SSD drive to cache the write through like with ZFS.
Also; I never had the issue, but on different forums few people after updating their kernel, lost the ZFS module in GRUB which result of a non booting system.
I'll say; having partitions like /srv /var/lib/libvirtd /var/lib/docker on ZFS is worth it with 64GB of RAM and RAID6+
having all the system, still not sure..
PS: for debian you have this excellent guide : https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Debian-Stretch-Root-on-ZFS