Glad to see this forum become more lively! ZFS and using spinning rust for storage

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Seems a lot more people are trying out Linux and especially CachyOS. A lot of articles went into my feed on my Android last month!

5 months in now with no major issues: I somehow messed up my G502 Lightning by using Kernel Manager and it needed to re-pair with the dongle under Windows. That was the one big thing that happened to me.

Other than that just smooth sailing.

So cheers to the devs for making this distro possible! It’s way faster than anything I ever used before and it really goes out of it’s way to bring bleeding edge technologies like ZFS to the customer.

For Christmas I’d like to use 2x4TB drives mirrored as main storage and my 1TB NVME as cache. It’s probably a bigger task than I imagine. But I’m glad it’s possible!

Any hints that might be useful? I’m planning on doing the same later on with 2x16TB (since I happen to have one already)

In particular I’m thinking about how ZFS determines what moves into the cache. I probably do want a whole game to be in the cache but I really don’t want a 4k mp4 file to be cached as I will most likely only open it once.

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Oh, are you using your install as a NAS station @mjb ! &/or game station

2X4 s pretty large in there !

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Anyways, you ll be able to store loads of stuff in there.

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Not at all, it’s gaming PC. All my steam games work fine, OBS isn’t an issue. Even Genshin Impact runs just fine. It’s truly amazing how the calendar on KDE is better than what my boss has on Windows. (It has calendar weeks!)

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Oh, cool @mjb

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Yeah thanks for your encouragement I was hoping for somebody to point out pitfalls or their experience with doing that.

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Can t help you sadly on my end @mjb

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Can’t catch them all. You’re doing great work elsewhere!

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Lol, maybe ! lol

Appreciated @mjb

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This may provide some useful hints if you don’t know where else to start…

I know it’s for Proxmox (Debian) but the basic ZFS slog/zil principles are the same and using a single partitioned SSD for both is something I am about to try myself.