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ZFS Cheatsheet

Create a pool

  • Get disk ids from /dev/disk/by-id
  • zpool create <name> <type> <disks>
  • zpool create ssds mirror nvme-Samsung_SSD_980_TB_ABCD nvme-Samsung_SSD_980_TB_EFGH
  • Set ashift to the physical sector size of your disk
  • Set

Create a dataset

  • zfs create <pool>/<dataset>
  • Disabling atime is no longer necessary, just make sure that both atime and relatime are on
  • For encryption specify: -o encryption=on -o keyformat=raw-o keylocation=file:/path/to/key''
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