The following articles were originally written by Aaron Toponce and published on pthree.org in 2012, which is unfortunately no longer available online. I’ve mirrored his valuable work along with linked content here to ensure that readers continue to have access to this information.

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🗂️ Aaron’s ZFS Guide – Table of Contents

Zpool Administration	ZFS Administration	Appendices
0. Install ZFS on Debian GNU/Linux	9. Copy-on-write	A. Visualizing The ZFS Intent Log (ZIL)
1. VDEVs	10. Creating Filesystems	B. Using USB Drives
2. RAIDZ	11. Compression and Deduplication	C. Why You Should Use ECC RAM
3. The ZFS Intent Log (ZIL)	12. Snapshots and Clones	D. The True Cost Of Deduplication
4. The Adjustable Replacement Cache (ARC)	13. Sending and Receiving Filesystems
5. Exporting and Importing Storage Pools	14. ZVOLs	Linked Content / Mirrored
6. Scrub and Resilver	15. iSCSI, NFS and Samba	Aaron’s ZFS Guide Linked: ZFS RAIDZ stripe width
7. Getting and Setting Properties	16. Getting and Setting Properties	Aaron’s ZFS Guide Linked: How A ZIL Improves Disk Latencies
8. Best Practices and Caveats	17. Best Practices and Caveats

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So, I’ve blogged a few times randomly about getting ZFS on GNU/Linux, and it’s been a hit. I’ve had plenty of requests for blogging more. So, this will be the first in a long series of posts about how you can administer your ZFS filesystems and pools. You should start first by reading how to get ZFS installed into your GNU/Linux system here on this blog, then continue with this post.