ZFS and EXT4 NFS sharing in parallel?

[ThinkAgain]

Hi, I'm currently running RAIDs on my Proxmox server, with ZFS, shared via NFS with VMs and other machines on the network. I am now looking to build another single SSD into the system which I would also like to share via NFS - but in EXT4 format, as I do not see huge benefit in running single disks with ZFS.

So my very basic question is: Can I just mount the single disk and share it using /etc/exports without impacting the current, already existing ZFS NFS shares?

Thanks!

 

[bbgeek17]

yes, you can attach as many disks as your system allows, format them all with a different filesystem and export via different NFS export at the same time. You can also mount them under a single parent and export just the parent.

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[LnxBil]

as I do not see huge benefit in running single disks with ZFS.

All features of ZFS are still true:
- silent data corruption detection (but with one disk no self-healing unless copies > 1)
- compression
- CoW
- Snapshots

If you share your ZFS e.g. with Windows, you can emulate the windows shadow copy stuff with Samba and have that aswell.