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Resilient File System (ReFS) is a B+ tree based, copy-on-write filesystem introduced in Microsoft Windows 2012 that is intended to eventually replace NTFS.

Resilient File System (ReFS) is a B+ tree based, copy-on-write filesystem introduced in Microsoft Windows 2012 that is intended to eventually replace NTFS.

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Is ReFS ready to host production VHDXs on Hyper-V 2012 r2 clusters?

One of the new features that I didn't see listed in all the "Windows Server 2012 r2" posts is that Clustering now supports CSVs that are formatted with ReFS. So, naturally, I would like to change the CSVs where I store the VHDX files to be ReFS. But…
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ReFS on Storage Spaces: Is Storage Tiering working? Windows Server 2019

) I couldn't find any real information on this :-D I have Windows Server 2019 with one Storage Pool consisting of two HDDs and two SSDs with tiering and mirroring. On that there is a volume running ReFS. How can I check if ReFS tiering is working…
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ReFS / storage spaces drive being dropped under heavy load

I have a Windows 10 workstation used within my business for things like image processing (Photoshop) and software development (Eclipse). It's an i7-2600K based computer, Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H B75 motherboard, 16 GB RAM. OS is on Samsung 850 pro SSD,…
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Is it possible to ask ReFS to use hardware RAID6 for parity calculations?

Does ReFS use FPGA-based XOR engines for RAID parity calculations? If not, is it possible to get it to use such tech?
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Is SMB safer than iSCSI for connection to a NAS?

Recently one of our customers undertook an IT network audit from another (third party) IT audit firm. The results were generally good, although they pointed out that we had used iSCSI client on Windows Server as a means of connecting to the NAS,…
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Corrupt (?) ReFS causing blue screen when drive is mounted

On Windows Server 2019, I have an 8 drive Storage Spaces pool that contains many volumes, only one of which is ReFS formatted. (The rest are NTFS.) My server recently spontaneously started blue screen looping in the middle of some very heavy FS…
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ReFS with or without hardware RAID? With or without storage spaces?

For a backup target in a small company I‘m setting up a 4*8TB Dell Poweredge R230 (supports hardware RAID 0/1/5) I only want to go with Windows Server since that‘s where I have most know-how. I want to use ReFS because silent data corruption is a…
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Configuring Storage Spaces for NVMe caching of SSDs using powershell

I am installing Server 2019 Core on a Dell server. These are the drives I have: Get-StoragePool -IsPrimordial $true | Get-PhysicalDisk | Where-Object CanPool -eq $True DeviceId FriendlyName MediaType CanPool…
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ReFS and Storage Spaces in virtual environment - ESXi / VMware vSphere

As Microsoft's ReFS draw my attention because of data corruption occurred to my storage I'm wondering if it's recommend to use ReFS in a virtualized environment. To be precise my stack would be a bunch of physical discs on a RAID Controller on a…
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ReFS and FileIntegrity

I've been planning to run ReFS within our infrastructure for some time now, but just seem to get the chance to now. So before I begin digging into configuring the test environment, so while I go grab DiskMon, ProcMon and Iometer, I was wondering…
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Storage Spaces - Why Use Parity?

Given that mirrored Storage Spaces provide automatic corruption detection and repair, is space efficiency the only compelling advantage of parity over a mirror? I am thinking that the poor write performance of parity justifies the relatively cheap…
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ReFS can't be mounted any more

On a Windows Server 2016 the ReFS volume can't be mounted any more. The eventlog shows refs 133 The file system detected a checksum error and was not able to correct it. The name of the file or folder is .... refs 135 Volume is formatted as ReFS…
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Does the ReFS filesystem reserve space for itself?

I recently formatted a single disk from the line of new 14TB Seagates on Windows 10 with ReFS, with a 4K block size, to use the full capacity available and noticed that out of the approximately 12.7TB it presents as usable that it already reports…
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NTFS vhdx On REFS Mirrored Storage Spaces

I've been trying to figure this out now for sometime, but haven't found an answer. I have a Server 2016 VM running on HyperV Server 2016. It has a file storage VHDX formatted as NTFS that is sitting on a mirrored storage spaces virtual disk running…
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Server 2016 File Server Best Practices

We are going to replace our old 2008R2 file server with Server 2016. We only have about 50 shares but about 20 TB and growing of Data. I get the share permissions and NTFS and most restrictive which is what I keep finding when searching for best…
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