On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 09:50:07PM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: > On 12/26/17 6:22 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 05:20:58PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > >> Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > >> > [ DELETED ] > > > > I'll have about half a gig of RAM. Does this rule out ZFS or just > > make it moderately slower? I'm not going to be running millions of > > transactions a day on my home server. > > I am a long time user of ZFS on FreeBSD, Ubuntu, and Debian. This is my > opinion. My opinion and $5.00 will get you a Happy Meal. > > A good place to start is ZFS On Linux (http://zfsonlinux.org/) This project > is being run by the bright boys and girls at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, > our tax dollars at work. Yes, it is covered by a GPLv2-incompatible > licence[1] (CDDL), but I consider the advantages of ZFS enough to ignore the > license issue. I mostly run Debian and ZFS works like a charm. > > The minimum amount of RAM you need to run ZFS is 8 gb BUT you will not be > happy. Realistically you should have a minimum of 16 gb. My ZFS at home has > 64 gb and is quite happy. Also you must be running a 64 bit OS. Another point > to keep in mind is that with RaidZ1 (RAID5) or RaidZ2 (RAID6) should never > get above 80% usage.
The RAM requirement pretty well rules out ZFS for me. Too bad. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
