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On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:45:15 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> > > emerge zfs works too :) |
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> > > I really like the way ZFS just lets you get on with things. |
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> > Does anyone run it on a desktop/laptop as their day to day fs? |
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> Yes. |
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> > Any |
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> > drawbacks or gotchas? Other than reliability, how does it perform |
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> > compared say to ext4? |
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> I haven't benchmarked it. It feels as if it may be a little slower on my |
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> desktop with spinning disks, but that may be down to other factors, like |
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> impatience. It flies on my laptop's SSD. |
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Additional note: |
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*Of course* it will be slower than ext*, because during every read it |
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ensures that the block being read has a proper checksum. |
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Likewise on writes. |
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But that IMO is very worth it just for the additional peace-of-mind, |
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knowing you will never ever have a silent corruption. |
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