BeardyDude
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- Mar 12, 2021
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Yeah I know there are ways around it. I'm passing through a second (well, third actually!) HBA to a VM to access some ext4 disks already. But, these ways all tend to variously suck. Rsync is slow as mud, zpool send/receive only works if it's zfs at both ends - and as soon as you do anything over the network rather than locally, things get very slow!
Also - these are just ways to move data to ZFS - whilst that's usually a good idea, it's not *always*. Sometimes you don't want a migration, or want to handle it manually and more slowly - "cleaning house" whilst moving across - or asking users to DIY part of the process.
I know a full featured "migration module" would be a lot of work to implement - though it would definitely add value, not only for the freeloaders (like me at home!) but making it an easier sell to smaller business. However, simply being able to mount the drives "officially" from the UI would let you put them to use in samba, containers and more quite easily - with the aforementioned warning flag that you're losing out by not using ZFS :)
Going off track a bit though, and thinking of small business - more could be done on that front! "Contact us to discuss a quote" puts off a lot of potential smaller customers. A couple of retail friendly, 4-8 drive synology/qnap alternatives, sold in one spec only with a clear up front price would present a good alternative some firms might "pick up off shelf of the internet" - especially with a consultant who uses and enjoys ZFS/free/truenas already advising them! They don't always want to "discuss their needs and design a solution", sometimes they just want to get their card out :)
Also - these are just ways to move data to ZFS - whilst that's usually a good idea, it's not *always*. Sometimes you don't want a migration, or want to handle it manually and more slowly - "cleaning house" whilst moving across - or asking users to DIY part of the process.
I know a full featured "migration module" would be a lot of work to implement - though it would definitely add value, not only for the freeloaders (like me at home!) but making it an easier sell to smaller business. However, simply being able to mount the drives "officially" from the UI would let you put them to use in samba, containers and more quite easily - with the aforementioned warning flag that you're losing out by not using ZFS :)
Going off track a bit though, and thinking of small business - more could be done on that front! "Contact us to discuss a quote" puts off a lot of potential smaller customers. A couple of retail friendly, 4-8 drive synology/qnap alternatives, sold in one spec only with a clear up front price would present a good alternative some firms might "pick up off shelf of the internet" - especially with a consultant who uses and enjoys ZFS/free/truenas already advising them! They don't always want to "discuss their needs and design a solution", sometimes they just want to get their card out :)