special_small_blocks

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    ZFS Rewrite doesn’t fully move all metadata/small files to Special VDEV

    I do want to say my setup is a little complex as it doubles as the boot drive and a special vdev in a 3-way Mirror. I have partitioned 200G just for the special vdev itself. I am running on a fresh install of Proxmox 9.1 with the pool running on the host itself. I have set special_small_blocks...
  2. G

    ZFS Metadata Special Device

    Hello all, I would like to configure a metadata special device for my ZFS mirror pool (2x HDD's, 18TB each) but I am not entirely sure of the steps. I've found some documentation online but I am still hesitant as I don't want to mess things up & then re-build the mirror. I do have data backed...
  3. S

    Very large volume (10TB disk)

    Hello, We are really happy with PBS! Back-up is much faster and we can hold more retention with the incremental/deduplcation function. We have a dedicated PBS server with 12 x 8TB disk en 2 x Enterprise SSD for special device. We currently have set special_small_blocks to 4K, is this the right...