A year ago I set up Ubuntu server with 3 ZFS pools on my server, normally I don’t make copies of very large files but today I was making a copy of a ~30GB directory and I saw in rsync that the transfer doesn’t exceed 3mb/s (cp is also very slow).

What is the best file system that “just works”? I’m thinking of migrating everything to ext4

EDIT: I really like the automatic pool recovery feature in ZFS, has saved me from 1 hard drive failure so far

  • atzanteol
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    10 months ago

    Most filesystems should “just work” these days.

    Why are you blaming the filesystem here when you haven’t ruled out other issues yet? If you have a drive failing a new FS won’t help. Check out “smartctl” to see if it reports errors in your drives.

    • KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      they may be using really slow hard drives or an SSD without DRAM.

      or maybe a shitty network switch?

      maybe the bandwidth is used up by a torrent box?

      there’s a lot of possible causes.

    • Merlin404@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      That ive learnt the hard way it dosent 😅 have a Ubuntu server with unifi network in it, thats now full in inodes 😅 the positive thing, im forced to learn a lot in Linux 😂