ZFS
ZFS is a copy on write filesystem.
Installation
First you want to enable the contrib repo in `/etc/apt/sources.list
It should look like this
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware contrib
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main non-free-firmware contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main non-free-firmware contrib
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main non-free-firmware contrib
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main non-free-firmware contrib
After that you can install zfs
apt update
apt install linux-headers-amd64 zfsutils-linux zfs-dkms zfs-zed
Now you can load the module and test it
modprobe zfs
zfs version
zfs-2.1.11-1
zfs-kmod-2.1.11-1
zfs pool creation
You can create a zfs pool with the following command
zpool create pool /dev/sdx
You can show pool status with the command zpool status
zpool status
pool: pool
state: ONLINE
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
pool ONLINE 0 0 0
sdb ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
zfs datasets
You can create datasets for your pool with the command zfs create <pool>/<dataset>, and later list all datasets with the command zfs list
zfs create pool/my-dataset
zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
pool 138K 30.5G 24K /pool
pool/my-dataset 24K 30.5G 24K /pool/my-dataset