Useful References for Understanding ZFS

I've been looking to upgrade my existing homelab (currently a 2012 Mac Mini which I had lying around). I plan to use ZFS when I do upgrade, as it has a lot of great features for data integrity, redundancy and backups.

I've found a number of useful references in the process, which I thought to include here:

References

• FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS
• FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS
• OpenZFS Documentation

Useful Posts

• ZFS 101 - Understanding ZFS Storage & Performance: great write up explaining what ZFS is and how it works, this article goes into a good level of depth too
• ZFS: You Should User Mirror VDEVs, Not RAIDZ: recommendations on how to structure ZFS pools - spoiler alert mirroring is a great option
• ZFS Metadata Special Device: explains how to add a metadata device in order to increase random read performance on a ZFS pool