A Raid-5 with 16x20TB disks has a high risk for a whole array lost when one drive fails and when a readerror happens during rebuild in the degraded array. Do not!
You should use a Raid-6. With ntfs you should use a hardware raid adapter with BBU or flash protection to be quite safe. With...
OpenZFS 2.3.1 rc5 for Windows
Releases · openzfsonwindows/openzfs
With the help of many users evaluating and reporting issues, OpenZFS on Windows becomes better and better with very short cycles between release candidates on the way to a release
Issues · openzfsonwindows/openzfs...
OpenZFS on Windows 2.3.1 rc2 is available
It fixes a long existing bug with driver unload on updates.
If installer crashes on update, reinstall. A reboot is no longer needed as the driver reloads.
A minor bug with zpool status warning (id mismatch) is known.
zfs-windows-2.3.1rc2 ·...
OpenZFS for Windows 2.3 rc6f
https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/releases/tag/zfswin-2.3.0rc6
Release seems not to too far away as we see a new release every few days to fix the remaining problems that came up as more users testing OpenZFS on Windows now on different soft and hardware...
OpenZFS for Windows 2.3.0 rc5
https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/releases/tag/zfswin-2.3.0rc5
If you use a former 2.3.0 release on Windows you should update is it fixes some probleme around mount up to BSOD. The update can last a few minutes so wait. Remaining problem that i see: a...
OpenZFS on Windows: 2.3.0 pre release rc2
Seems we are near to a release.
Please evaluate, report bugs under Issues or discuss experience under Discussions
https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/releases/tag/zfswin-2.3.0rc2
Napp-it cs:
Jan, 27 rc2 web-gui and server backend can run on any OS
main platforms are OmniOS, Proxmox and Windows
Initial setup
https://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/xampp.zip
read included readme.txt
For updates
https://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/napp-it_cs.zip
read included readme.txt
You can have local fat32, ntfs or Refs disks on ZFS on Windows with a .vhdx virtual harddisk file. Much simpler than any other method and it works even over LAN as a zero config alternative to iSCSI.
Windows as a storageserver with Storage Spaces is not as bad as you can pool disks of any type or size and set location, redundancy or hot/cold data tiering per Space. If Microsoft would improve usability without deep Powershell knowledge, this would be a first step.
ReFS as a modern...
OpenZFS 2.2.6 on Windows is still beta but has release candidate state. It is already quite usable unless you discover some compatibility problems with your software environment,
https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/releases
Without ZFS you can use Windows Storage Spaces with ntfs or...
OpenZFS on Windows 2.2.6 rc11 is out
https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/releases
rc11:
32bit tunables was using 64bit and unsettable.
zfs mount would userland assert
GCM nested cpu calls
tunables would not survive reboots
Important is the fix on a mount problem and with encryption...
OpenZFS on Windows 2.2.6 rc10 is out (select from list of downloads)
https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/releases
Fix of a mount problem, see
https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/discussions/412
This is the first release candidate where all my problems are solved.
Anyone with a remaining serious problem?
Is this the "still beta but first usable release"?
https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/discussions/413
If you ask for a fileserver with a superiour SMB performance, then SMB direct with RDMA is the answer. Usually this means RDMA capable nics 10G+, a Windows Server OS and RDMA capable clients like Windows 11 Pro.
If you want to avoid Windows Server, you can try Linux with the RDMA capable ksmbd...
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