OpenZFS 2.1 is out—let’s discuss its brand-new dRAID vdevs

OpenZFS added distributed RAID topologies to its toolkit with today's 2.1.0 release.

Enlarge / OpenZFS added distributed RAID topologies to its toolkit with as we speak’s 2.1.zero launch. (credit score: Aurich Lawson)

Friday afternoon, the OpenZFS mission launched model 2.1.zero of our perennial favourite “it is sophisticated however it’s price it” filesystem. The brand new launch is suitable with FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE and up, and Linux kernels 3.10-5.13. This launch presents a number of common efficiency enhancements, in addition to a number of completely new options—principally concentrating on enterprise and different extraordinarily superior use instances.

Right now, we will give attention to arguably the largest function OpenZFS 2.1.zero provides—the dRAID vdev topology. dRAID has been beneath lively improvement since at the least 2015, and reached beta standing when merged into OpenZFS grasp in November 2020. Since then, it has been closely examined in a number of main OpenZFS improvement outlets—which means as we speak’s launch is “new” to manufacturing standing, not “new” as in untested.

Distributed RAID (dRAID) overview

In case you already thought ZFS topology was a posh matter, get able to have your thoughts blown. Distributed RAID (dRAID) is a wholly new vdev topology we first encountered in a presentation on the 2016 OpenZFS Dev Summit.

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