In part 2, Tom Lawrence of @LAWRENCESYSTEMS gives us an absolute masterclass in ZFS, answers some audience questions, talks about some of his favorite open-source projects, and opines about the shift away from the cloud back to self hosting. *Did you miss Part 1?* *Interested in learning more or keeping up with Tom Lawrence?* @LAWRENCESYSTEMS *Show Topics:* 0:30 The Billion Dollar Filesystem 3:39 ZFS Ram requirements 5:15 ZFS Data Integrity and checksums explained 8:14 ZFS Caching with ARC 18:26 Should your media shares be in a zpool on ZFS? 20:56 ZFS vdev setups and considerations 24:14 RAIDz1, z2 and z3 28:45 Expanding ZFS Storage and potential data loss scenarios 30:46 Rsync vs ZFS replication 33:24 What is the maximum recommended drives to put in a vdev? 40:12 Exploring new technologies in ZFS for business and homelabbers 50:31 VMs on ZFS: Zvols and vdisks 52:42 User questions 59:06 Best practices for setting up a NAS with ZFS 1:01:15 Favorite Open Source projects 1:09:03 The shift from cloud services to self hosting Join this channel to get access to additional Unraid Community perks: