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    BTRFS on LUKS on zvol advices

    Hi, I currently have a ZFS pool of SSDs where I have some VMs on zvols (ext4 fs), and I want to create a VM with an encrypted disk that would be encrypted using LUKS and use BTRFS as a file system. I have read that using a COW filesystem (BTRFS) on a COW filesystem (ZFS) is not a good idea...
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    From a VM OS point of view: It's an "standard" FS (like ext4) still COW when residing in a ZVOL on top of a proxmox host with ZFS?

    I thought that it was true, but after reading some answers in this thread now I have doubts. The real reason why I want to know it's because of the full_page_writes parameter in postgresql DB. Setting it to off improves the performance greatly (almost x2) but for non COW FS keeps the DB in a...