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Key Features in OpenZFS 2.3.0:

RAIDZ Expansion (#15022): Add new devices to an existing RAIDZ pool, increasing storage capacity without downtime.
Fast Dedup (#15896): A major performance upgrade to the original OpenZFS deduplication functionality.
Direct IO (#10018): Allows bypassing the ARC for reads/writes, improving performance in scenarios like NVMe devices where caching may hinder efficiency.
JSON (#16217): Optional JSON output for the most used commands.
Long names (#15921): Support for file and directory names up to 1023 characters.
Bug Fixes: A series of critical bug fixes addressing issues reported in previous versions.
Numerous performance improvements throughout the code base.
Supported Platforms:
- Linux kernels 4.18 - 6.12,
- FreeBSD releases 13.3, 14.0 - 14.2.

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7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 05:19 next collapse

Finally! #15022, it’s been a long time coming…

horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 05:33 next collapse

I literally just got bigger drives for my array last week. So happy I put it off.

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca on 14 Jan 07:03 collapse

So did I, yesterday, but I still think I have to rebuild because I’m reducing disk quantities :(

tabular@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 07:52 next collapse

How does it work before this release?

7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 16:20 collapse

It used to be that you couldn’t grow the pool, so you needed all of your drives up-front.

Now you can start with four drives and slowly grow over time to whatever your target goal is. It’s much more friendly for home labs/tight budgets.

tabular@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 19:05 collapse

That’s good to hear. I assume people saying “ZFS” are usually referring to this OpenZFS (and usually not Oracle ZFS)?

Atemu@lemmy.ml on 15 Jan 01:24 collapse

Oracle ZFS is so obscure by now that it’s irrelevant.

As usual with Oracle products, it’s just a means to squeeze poorly led companies.

7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 16:51 collapse

Also, note that doesn’t increase the stripe size for old data; it’s just for future writes.

But you could copy the old data to a new location and it would take advantage of the new stripe size.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca on 14 Jan 05:30 next collapse

I like JSON output. Will make my monitoring jobs less fragile.

Dragonish@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Jan 05:57 next collapse

Super excited to see the expansion functionality released!

far_university190@feddit.org on 15 Jan 17:02 next collapse

Will 1023 byte filename break software? Most only support 256.

bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Jan 21:56 collapse

Wasn’t raidz expansion already in a tagged version or did I miss remember?