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qcow2 or ZFS — Why I Switched After 12 Years on the Same Server
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qcow2 or ZFS — Why I Switched After 12 Years on the Same Server

The reasons behind my storage choices for a Proxmox server that has run for 12 years without a reinstall — why I chose qcow2 in 2014, why I only moved to ZFS in 2026, and what actually changed the calculus.

#zfs#qcow2#proxmox#storage
12 min read·21 May
Moving DA to Debian 12, Part 2 — Switching Storage to a ZFS Mirror
Linux

Moving DA to Debian 12, Part 2 — Switching Storage to a ZFS Mirror

Replace the three storage layers of mdadm RAID1 + ext4 + qcow2 with a single layer of ZFS mirror + raw zvol while the old VM stays online, by degrading RAID to a single disk.

#zfs#raid#storage#snapshot
11 min read·20 May