Picked up another SG-4860 as a backup.... ZFS?

Ramosel

This is not directed at johnpoz, but I know he too runs an SG-4860 and on the above thread John wrote: "Yeah came to the same conclusion - not running it on a 100TB array ;) My pfsense is like a 24GB disk.. And it has 8GB of ram - so what if using ZFS uses a bit more than ufs.."

As part of my wanting an easy path to recovery of catastrophic failure, I picked up a second SG-4860 as a hardware spare and luckily it came with the same size SSD (128gb). I have followed some of the discussions since the coming of pfSense+ regarding doing a clean load and moving to ZFS. Honestly, of all the file systems I have played with over the years, I've only dabbled with ZFS on an array but never on a single disk or it's setup, especially for pfSense.

On a single disk (SSD) as in the SG-4860 what are the advantages of running ZFS? Is there a best practices on how to set the size/environment parms for pfSense+?

I've got a clean slate and no sense of urgency so I'd like to explore this avenue with a little knowledgeable guidance.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

Rick

stephenw10

The advantage currently is the increased resilience to filesystem damage from a power loss.

There is not (yet) any integration for things like snapshots or boot environments but that is on the cards.

ZFS will install and run fine on that box with the default settings. I've been running it here on numerous things for a long time.

Steve