Storage overhead on zvols

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> I'm not using ZFS in my VMs for data integrity (the host already provides that); it's mainly for the easy creation and management of filesystems, and the ability to do snapshots for rollback and replication. Some of my deployments have hundreds of filesystems in an organized hierarchy, with delegated permissions and automated snapshots, send/recvs, and clones for various operations.

I architect things in such a way that I have 1 VM used as a NAS that
runs zfs and allows all that nice functionality then all the other
VM's run with ufs + nfs mounts.  And can actually run a VM with
no local disk over iPxe netbooting.

I find this very flexible and minimally impacting.  Though it
does make a single point of failure, that could be cured with
some redundancy.

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org