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Matthew said he was planning on putting three disks into a mirror (what most of the world, but not ZFS, calls RAID 1), not into RAIDZ. ZFS supports n-way mirrors, with n >= 2. I guess it might perform better than RAIDZ, though certainly not as well as two pairs of mirrored disks striped. It...

I’ve just come across Proxmox, and have been playing with it for a couple of days. So far, I’m liking what I’m seeing. I’m wondering if it would be possible to use it in the (or a) way I have in mind. I’ve been running SME Server (www . contribs . org) at home for about the last 15 years...

If you want it created as a file, you can create the storage on a ZFS pool, but just don't tell Proxmos it's ZFS storage. I can't address whether that would be good or bad for you, though.

It appears (as would make sense) that the VM drives are created as zvols when you're creating them within a ZFS storage location. A zvol is a block device, and thus won't appear as a file the way that most virtual disk types will. Apparently I can't post links now, but if you google "what is a...