ZFS other tools

• OpenZFS on OS X
• An extensive ZFS setup on MacOS
• ZFS on macOS instructions and scripts
• ZFS OSX Menu Bar widget
• An extensive ZFS setup on MacOS

ZFS other tools

• Arm NAS
• Raspberry Pi with a ZFS root filesystem (Ubuntu/Manjaro ARM)

ZFS other tools

• Accessing ZFS Disks on Windows
• Open ZFS on Windows
• ZFS on WSL

ZFS other tools

• Docker volume plugin for creating persistent volumes as a dedicated zfs dataset
• ZFS snapshotter plugin for containerd

ZFS other tools

• ZFS backed persistent volumes on Kubernetes
• Sync ZFS backups to an offsite location natively in Kubernetes
• Automated K8S controller that removes orphaned ZFSVolume CRDs in OpenEBS ZFS environments
• ZFS Feature Discovery for Kubernetes
• Dynamic ZFS persistent volume provisioner for Kubernetes
• Kubernetes operator to manage ZFS Datasets

🧭 dRAID official doc

• dRAID documentation - docs/Basic%20Concepts/RAIDZ.html) that provides integrated distributed hot spares which allows for faster resilvering while retaining the benefits of raidz.

🧭 RAIDZ official doc

• RAIDZ documentation - 5 that allows for better distribution of parity and eliminates the RAID-5 “write hole”. Data and parity is striped across all disks within a raidz group. RAIDZ is effective for large block sizes and sequential workloads.

• OpenZFS Releases
• OpenZFS GitHub
• Getting Started
• Official website

ZFS other tools

• ZFS Filesystem Awesome Collection from kazaimazai
• mamh-mixed/awesome-zfs

ZFS other tools

• ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems
• Alpine installer with ZFS as root
• Arch Linux - ZFS‑first installer
• Arch Linux - Root on ZFS
• Debian Bookworm - Root on ZFS
• Fedora Linux - Root on ZFS
• Gentoo Linux - Root on ZFS
• NixOS Linux - Root on ZFS
• openSUSE Linux - Root on ZFS
• Rocky Linux Root on ZFS
• Slackware Linux Root on ZFS
• Ubuntu Linux Root on ZFS

🛣️ Beginner Guides

• ZFS 101
• OpenZFS Topology FAQ: What’s a zpool? What’s a vdev?
• ZFS Guide for starters and advanced users
• What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it?
• 10 Reasons Why ZFS Rocks
• ZFS walkthrough
• ZFS CLI reference
• Aaron’s ZFS Guide: Zpool Best Practices and Caveats
• OpenZFS - the final word in file systems
• The ZFS Subreddit (r/zfs)
• ZFS CLI reference
• Klara Systems - Choosing the Right ZFS Pool Layout
• Aaron’s ZFS Guide: Zpool Best Practices and Caveats

🔁 Snapshots, Backups and Replication

• Secure External Backup with ZFS Native Encryptionp
• Sending and Receiving ZFS Data
• How to use snapshots, clones and replication in ZFS on Linux
• ZFS Snapshot Tools
• Efficient ZFS Replication with Snapshots
• Backup storage for thousands of virtual machines using free tools
• ZFS Scenarios

ZFS Data Protection

• How OpenZFS Provides Data Integrity Where Other File Systems Don’t

ZFS dRAID

• Let’s talk about its brand-new dRAID vdevs

ZFS Encryption

• A quick-start guide to OpenZFS native encryption
• OpenZFS on OS X encryption support
• Tutorial on how to backup encrypted ZFS data on untrusted storage without the need of unlocking it.
• How to install LUKS encrypted Server and enable remote unlocking tutorial
• ZFS handbook - Encryption

ZFS performance tuning and benchmarks

• Managing and Tracking Storage Performance – OpenZFS Storage Bottlenecks
• 5 Reasons Why Your ZFS Storage Benchmarks Are Wrong
• FreeBSD vs. Linux – Which Operating System to Use for OpenZFS
• ZFS performance results
• ZFS performance considerations
• ZFS RAID vs. Linux mdraid

ZFS RAID and RAIDZ

• Understanding ZFS RAID Levels: Types, Modes, and Configurations
• ZFS RAIDZ vs. traditional RAID
• ZFS versus RAID

XFS

• OpenZFS @OpenZFStalks
• Cockpit+ZFS Manager plugin
• Top Tools to Recover Data from ZFS Drives. How to Recover Data from ZFS File System
• The BEST Linux filesystem encryption in 2020 ext4 vs btrfs vs zfs vs luks vs gocryptfs comparison
• Explaining ZFS LOG and L2ARC Cache: Do You Need One and How Do They Work?
• Tuesday Tech Tip - ZFS Best Practices
• TrueNAS Tutorial: Expanding Your ZFS RAIDz VDEV with a Single Drive - ->
• ZFS Basics - Pools and VDEVs - Testing, Configuration, and Expansion
• ZFS Boot Menu - I put that stuff on everything
• ZFS 101: Leveraging Datasets and Zvols for Better Data Management
• OpenZFS novel algorithms: snapshots, space allocation, RAID-Z - Matt Ahrens
• Lecture on OpenZFS read and write code paths - Matt Ahrens
• OpenZFS Basics by Matt Ahrens and George Wilson
• Software Tools to Read a ZFS Disk in Windows / How to Open a ZFS Disk in Windows
• Project ZeroFault: OpenZFS-Level Safeguards Against Pool Faults
• Understanding ZFS in the Real World: Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned & Future Plans
• Best Practice Architecture for Open-Source Storage using ZFS
• OpenZFS at scale: learning, challenges, and awesome customers by Sam Atkinson
• OpenZFS @OpenZFStalks
• Cockpit+ZFS Manager plugin
• The BEST Linux filesystem encryption in 2020 ext4 vs btrfs vs zfs vs luks vs gocryptfs comparison

ZFS other tools

• ZFS Cheat Sheet #3
• ZFS Cheatsheet + Backups tutorial
• ZFS tuning cheat sheet
• ZFS RAIDZ Expansion Is Awesome but Has a Small Caveat
• ZFS Cheat Sheet #2

OpenZFS System Administration Commands

• zdb — display ZFS storage pool debugging and consistency information
• fsck.zfs — dummy ZFS filesystem checker
• ZED — ZFS Event Daemon
• zfs_prepare_disk

ZFS Backup tools

• bzfs - Backup command line tool
• httm - Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS
• pyznapv - ZFS snapshot tool
• sanoid - Policy-driven snapshot management and replication tool
• zap - Management of zfs snapshots
• zfs_autobackup - ZFS autobackup is used to periodicly backup ZFS filesystems to other locations
• zfs-autosnapshot - Shell script that takes snapshots
• zfs-auto-snapshot - ZFS Automatic Snapshot Service
• zfs-backup - ZFS backup via zfs send/recv over SSH
• zfs-backup-blob - Backup-tools for ZFS to blob-storage backups
• zfs-backup-manager - Automatic ZFS Backup Management Tool
• zfs_mgmt - Managing zfs snapshots
• zfsnap - Rolling ZFS snapshots
• zfsnap - Rolling ZFS snapshots
• zfs-periodic - Scripts to take zfs snapshots with periodic on FreeBSD
• zfs-prune-snapshots - Remove snapshots from one or more zpools that match given criteria
• zfs-rclone - Script to periodically backup ZFS datasets using rclone
• zfs-remote-mirror - Setting up a remote ZFS mirror
• zfs-replicate - Shell script to manage ZFS snapshot replication locally, or between hosts.
• zfs-snapshot-mgmt - Script for automating ZFS snapshot creation for FreeBSD
• zfstools
• zfs-tool - Tool to help with various zfs tasks, e.g. cleanup snapshots
• zfs-tools - ZFS backup tools
• znapzend - High performance open source ZFS backup with mbuffer and ssh support
• zrep - ZFS replication and failover
• zrepl - ZFS backup & replication solution
• zxfer - Script for managing ZFS snapshot replication
• zfs-snapshot-mgmt - Script for automating ZFS snapshot creation for FreeBSD
• Zelta - Backup and Recovery Suite

ZFS Calculators

• OpenZFS Capacity Calculator
• ZFS raidz calculator
• ZFS Capacity Calculator
• ZFS / RAIDZ Capacity Calculator (beta)

ZFS GUI

• Zyggy - Simple GUI for ZFS administration
• Poolsman - Web UI for OpenZFS
• Cockpit ZFS Manager
• ZFS Commander
• ZfDash ZFS Management GUI / WEBUI
• Terminal UI for inspecting and restoring file history on ZFS snapshots
• ZFS administration tool for Webmin

ZFS Monitoring

• ZFS pool monitoring and notification daemon
• Prometheus and ZFS
• Prometheus ZFS exporter
• Zabbix ZFS monitor
• Zabbix template and user parameters to monitor zfs on linux
• Nagios/Icinga plugin to monitor ZFS Pools
• Nagios plugin to check ZFS pool in the Linux environment
• collectd plugin for ZFS

ZFS other tools

• Simple bash script to rebalance pool data between all mirrors when adding vdevs to a pool
• "zpool iostats" for humans. Find the slow parts of ZFS pool
• Script to check ZFS replication status
• ZSys - daemon and client for zfs systems
• ZFS Boot Environment manager
• HomeLab setup with ZFS, Docker & Ansible
• ansible-zfs
• ZTop
• ZFS statistics tool
• Script to load ZFS encryption keys
• zfs-health-check
• shavee - Program to automatically decrypt and mount ZFS datasets using Yubikey HMAC as 2FA or any File on USB/SFTP/HTTPS drive
• A simple script for showing progress bar for ZFS scrub operations

ZFS other tools

• ZFS/ ZoL quick fixes
• PracticalZFS - Great collection of ZFS use cases

Btrfs

• Btrfs vs ZFS: The future of file systems

XFS

• How Is ZFS Different From XFS