ZFS advantages over UFS:
raidz 1 or 2
Unlimited snapshots, clones, filesystems
pool bases storage…
self healing
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Mounting a hard disk image including partitions using Linux
A while ago I thought it would be a good idea to make a backup of my Linux server by just dumping the complete disk to a file. In retrospect, it would have been much easier had I just dumped the individual filesystems.
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SSH Filesystem
This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there’s nothing to do. On the client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the server with ssh.
The idea of sshfs was taken from the SSHFS filesystem distributed with LUFS, which I found very useful. There were some limitations of that codebase, so I rewrote it. Features of this implementation are:
- Based on FUSE (the best userspace filesystem framework for linux 😉
- Multithreading: more than one request can be on it’s way to the server
- Allowing large reads (max 64k)
- Caching directory contents
via SSH Filesystem.