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English Forums => 24.7, 24.10 Legacy Series => Topic started by: logi on September 18, 2024, 05:42:08 PM

Title: OPNsense as a VM in Proxmox, what FS to select UFS or ZFS
Post by: logi on September 18, 2024, 05:42:08 PM
Proxmox was installed on a single SSD using the ext4 FS (default), what should be the most adequate FS for the OPNsense VM, UFS or XFS? Thank you
Title: Re: OPNsense as a VM in Proxmox, what FS to select UFS or ZFS
Post by: meyergru on September 18, 2024, 06:48:05 PM
First off: You lose much by not installing Proxmox in ZFS in the first place. By using that you can always rollback your VMs and are sure that no filesystem corruptions stay undetected and use thin provisioning and compression, too.

While you could use anything as filesystem in the VMs, I would also use ZFS on OpnSense, because you can use the new snapshot feature within the VM itself. Also, UFS can get corrupted sometimes on unclean shutdowns. That being said, you could still rollback the whole VM under Proxmox.
Title: Re: OPNsense as a VM in Proxmox, what FS to select UFS or ZFS
Post by: Taomyn on September 19, 2024, 08:04:39 AM
Agreed, ZFS - when I went from physical to Proxmox I took the opportunity to change from UFS to ZFS
Title: Re: OPNsense as a VM in Proxmox, what FS to select UFS or ZFS
Post by: JamesFrisch on September 19, 2024, 08:18:16 AM
I would go with UFS, simply because I assume that virtualized ZFS is not a great idea and since you virtualize OPNsense, you can use Snapshots/Backups in Proxmox.