Innode limitations?: Page 2 - Enhance Control Panel

Innode limitations?

JohnB

jaymate Yup. I used ZFS with LXD for containerization before Enhance. ZFS is amazing on datacenter grade drives.

ZFS is horrible on consumer grade and some cheap datacenter drives and they will die much faster. A lot of datacenter NVME's that I've seen providers use don't have PLP either.

I'm guessing Enhance decided against ZFS because you need good hardware for it to be reliable, but they know many hosts use just barely good enough hardware.

Adam

There's no reason that you can't use ZFS for your root file system, you just need to make that choice before installing the o/s.

Enhance moved away from requiring ZFS for backups for compatibility reasons - many providers deploy servers pre-partitioned and it's less than trivial to repartition to allow for creation of a ZFS partition. Also the filesystem performance degrades significantly as the volume fills up.

jaymate

I moreso meant if Enhance was built around using ZFS for a ZFS snapshot backup sytem etc. Enhance's backup system is good (MUCH better than Acronis on cPanel), but incremental ZFS snapshots are still vastly more efficient. It would be a huge architectural change, but it would be nice if Enhance was built in such a way from the beginning.

I've been working on a custom daemon (specifically for WP hosting) that uses FreeBSD Jails and using ZFS Snapshots means backups take up next to zero space and restore instantly, and use barely any resources to create. There are limitations and downsides but they are worth it for such an application imo.

ZFS does have a level of CPU overhead too but it's worth it, and being able to easily enable ZSTD compression is nice.

rdbf

[unknown] I moreso meant if Enhance was built around using ZFS for a ZFS snapshot backup sytem etc. Enhance's backup system is good (MUCH better than Acronis on cPanel), but incremental ZFS snapshots are still vastly more efficient.

It was built around that before, but with btrfs instead of ZFS, until v12. There's no way it will be changed back from hardlinks to snapshots again in the future.

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