I don't know a lot about ZFS, but I do run several large installations
of TrueNAS scale which is an enterprise grade NAS solution. The backend
and all the "magic" is done with ZFS on Linux. As far as I can tell ZFS
on Linux (if you can get around the licensing) is *pretty* mature.
-- Scottchiefbaker
On 5/14/25 6:57 AM, Doug Bell wrote:
Yeah, that's how Zach Dysktra set up our MySQL database backups: The
primary MySQL wrote its binlogs to a ZFS volume, and the replica would
receive them and then use a ZFS snapshot to mark the backup point.
Then ZFS itself stored the diff between the snapshot point and the
current data.
Long-term, I suspect that'll be what ends up happening w/ the
Collector system: ZFS really seems like the ideal solution for this,
as it has compression like we want, but also snapshotting and
replication and send/recv and etc... If there's anyone with some
expertise to lend about setting up some OpenZFS stuff, that'd be
awesome, because I'm not that up-to-date on it at the moment (I was
still thinking it was pretty unstable on Linux, but a cursory web
search I just did makes it seem like that is no longer the case).
