====== Linux Guests ====== Linux Guest on BTRFS: * BTRFS with single copy of meta, system and data * I/O is better on modern guest Kernel 6.1 (vs 5.10) * I/O is better whem VM storage is "no cache" * sync writes goes to ZFS ZIL * With "Writeback" cache - ZFS ZIL was not utilized so high like with "no cache" Block sizes: * Default ''zvol'' ''volblocksize'' was 8k * Latest Proxmox creates ''zvols'' with 16k ''volblocksize'' So it is best to fit guest block sizes into ZFS block (16k) sizes: * mkfs.btfs options: --nodesize 16k * btrfs mount options: -o noatime * mkfs.ext4 options: -b 4096 -E stride=4,stripe-width=8 * ext4 mount options: -o noatime,user_xattr