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>> Besides performance, are there any drawbacks to ZFS compared to ext4? |
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> do yourself three favours: |
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> use ECC ram. Lots of it. 16GB DDR3 1600 ECC ram cost you less than 170€. |
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> And it is worth it. ZFS showed me just how many silent corruptions can |
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> happen on a 'stable' system. Errors never seen neither detected thanks |
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> to using 'standard' ram. |
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> turn off readahead. ZFS' own readahead and the kernel's clash - badly. |
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> Turn off kernel's readahead for a visible performance boon. |
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> use noop as io-scheduler. |
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Thank you, I'm taking notes. Please feel free to toss out any more tips. |
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- Grant |
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