On 18/05/2015 20:21, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: >> On the other hand, both btrfs and zfs will get you a level of data >> security that you simply won't get from ext4+lvm+mdadm - protection >> from silent corruption. > > That's one of the advantages i see in ZFS. Do you use it frequently? > Can anyone comment on its memory usage (without dedicated SSDs for > ARC)?
ZFS needs a lot of memory to function well. It does work and run with far less memory than recommended, but doesn't run *well* - performance is impaired. I don't recall the exact formula (insufficiently caffeinated at 8am) but 8G is about your minimum for a decent storage device -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
