Comment by scrp
Comment by scrp 5 days ago
After years in the making ZFS raidz expansaion is finally here.
Major features added in release:
- RAIDZ Expansion: Add new devices to an existing RAIDZ pool, increasing storage capacity without downtime.
- Fast Dedup: A major performance upgrade to the original OpenZFS deduplication functionality.
- Direct IO: Allows bypassing the ARC for reads/writes, improving performance in scenarios like NVMe devices where caching may hinder efficiency.
- JSON: Optional JSON output for the most used commands.
- Long names: Support for file and directory names up to 1023 characters.
> RAIDZ Expansion: Add new devices to an existing RAIDZ pool, increasing storage capacity without downtime.
More specifically:
> A new device (disk) can be attached to an existing RAIDZ vdev