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What are your experiences with ZFS on Arch? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Molecular0079@lemmy.world to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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I am in the process of making a DIY NAS box and I am debating between mdadm + BTRFS and ZFS. What are your experiences with using ZFS on Arch? Have you run into any major issues? Does ZFS being an external kernel module cause any annoyances with the frequent Arch kernel updates?

Give me the dirty details! Any recommendations or pitfalls I should avoid?

Thanks!

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[–] tedvdb@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I've got a pool of a collection of harddisks, mirrored. Performance is pretty decent considering the slow disks.

Oh having lots of available memory helps too, the ARC does a good job caching data, so the more the better.