Wandering Thoughts archives

2022-11-13:	I wouldn't use ZFS for swap (either for swapfiles or with a zvol)
2022-10-31:	I wish ZFS supported per-user reservations, not just per-user quotas
2022-09-20:	Why the ZFS ZIL's "in-place" direct writes of large data are safe
2022-08-31:	ZFS DVA offsets are in 512-byte blocks on disk but zdb misleads you about them
2022-08-30:	ZFS DVA offsets are in bytes, not (512-byte) blocks
2022-08-21:	ZFS DVAs and what they cover on raidz vdevs
2022-07-27:	What ZFS 'individual' and 'aggregated' IO size statistics mean
2022-07-25:	ZFS pool IO statistics (and vdev statistics) are based on physical disk IO
2022-03-17:	I need to remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted
2022-03-13:	We do see ZFS checksum failures, but only infrequently
2022-03-12:	I wish ZFS pools kept a persistent count of various errors
2022-02-09:	ZFS performance and modern solid state disk systems

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