A ZFS Masterclass with Tom Lawrence

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In part 2, Tom Lawrence of Lawrence Systems gives us an absolute masterclass in ZFS, answers some audience questions, talks about some of his favorite open-source projects, and opines about the shift away from the cloud back to self hosting.
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1. A ZFS Masterclass with Tom Lawrence (00:00:00)

2. The Billion Dollar Filesystem (00:00:30)

3. ZFS Ram requirements (00:03:39)

4. ZFS Data Integrity and checksums explained (00:05:15)

5. ZFS Caching with ARC (00:08:14)

6. Should your media shares be in a zpool on ZFS? (00:18:26)

7. ZFS vdev setups and considerations (00:20:56)

8. RAIDz1, z2 and z3 (00:24:14)

9. Expanding ZFS Storage and thinking about potential data loss scenarios (00:28:45)

10. Rsync vs ZFS replication (00:30:46)

11. What is the maximum recommended drives to put in a vdev? (00:33:24)

12. Exploring new technologies in ZFS for business and homelabbers (00:40:12)

13. VMs on ZFS: Zvols and vdisks (00:50:31)

14. User questions (00:52:42)

15. Best practices for setting up a NAS with ZFS (00:59:06)

16. Favorite Open Source projects (01:01:15)

17. The shift from cloud services to self hosting (01:09:03)