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Best Filesystem for NAS? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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A year ago I set up Ubuntu server with 3 ZFS pools on my server, normally I don't make copies of very large files but today I was making a copy of a ~30GB directory and I saw in rsync that the transfer doesn't exceed 3mb/s (cp is also very slow).

What is the best file system that "just works"? I'm thinking of migrating everything to ext4

EDIT: I really like the automatic pool recovery feature in ZFS, has saved me from 1 hard drive failure so far

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Where are you copying to / from?

Duplicating a folder on the same NAS on the same filesystem? Or copying over the network?

For example, some devices have a really fast file transfer until a buffer files up and then it crawls.

Rsync might not be the correct tool either if you're duplicating everything to an empty destination...?

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