Confused about storage type

[discretecourage]

i am very confused to use which storage type for vm drives

this is a small server with 256 gb ssd for proxmox boot and two 1 tb ssd for vm drives.

i have heard that zfs will write lot of logs which will reduce life of ssd.

can any body help me arrive at a conclusion that which file type i use

i will be using
- synchthing
- filebrowser
- pi hole
- jelly fin
- cloudflare tunnel
- samba server

on this server

all of them will be on lxc rather than vms.

Help me arrive at conclusion
shoould i use lvm thin or zfs

 

[discretecourage]

any help would be much aprreciated

 

[UdoB]

shoould i use lvm thin or zfs

The pro and contra of LVM vs. ZFS has been discussed several times - here in the forum and at other places.

While I did use LVM extensively in the far past I will always run a relevant system with ZFS nowadays. Disks delivering damaged data (bit-rot) exist. ZFS can and will recognize this. And as long redundancy is configured it can repair it! So: if you want to be sure to be able to read the same data in the future which you wrote today you need some cleverness in the storage system. "Classic" filesystems like ext4 just do not do this - they deliver whatever the disk gave them.

Disclaimer: just 2 €¢... and you may call me a ZFS-fanboy...

 

[discretecourage]

i read almost all of the post prior to this about lvm vs zfs (including most other website for past 2 days ) but instead of clearing up confusion. all of them added more confusion to it.
thats why this post.

 

[UdoB]

but instead of clearing up confusion. all of them added more confusion to it.

*grin*

Yeah, a lot of topics are confusing - until you understand the details. That's called a learning-curve ;-)

For me ZFS has so many "better" functions that I tend to use it whenever possible...

 

[mr44er]

Just use ZFS.

i have heard that zfs will write lot of logs which will reduce life of ssd.

Is your data more important or the health of the disk? Any disk will die sooner or later and with enterprise gear (which I recommend!) you only can minimize the risk, but not avoid it.
To avoid risks use redundancy with disks and backups!