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My first ZFS install (almost 10 years ago) was on 512MB of RAM, sometimes including a Gnome 2 desktop. People get the RAM requirement thing out of proportion -
by radiowave 9y ago
My first ZFS install (almost 10 years ago) was on 512MB of RAM, sometimes including a Gnome 2 desktop. People get the RAM requirement thing out of proportion - yes it helps, because it's caching, and caching helps - and ZFS is a little bit heavier on metadata than other file systems (chiefly because of the checksums), but a lot of the online advice is IMO overly cautious, probably because you're giving advice to some random person on the internet and you have no real idea about how to characterize the workload that their storage system will be exposed to, and probably neither do they.