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I've used ZFS on my daily desktop computer for almost 3 years. I'm using it with ArchLinux. The overall experience is great but here are some notes: * The cpu
by wb14123 4y ago
I've used ZFS on my daily desktop computer for almost 3 years. I'm using it with ArchLinux. The overall experience is great but here are some notes:
* The cpu usage can be higher if you use compression.
* I used to setup the main pool with SSD cache with HDD data store. It's okay for most use case except slow first time open of applications. But for demanding games it usually has very bad performance.
* ZFS also manage cache by itself so it needs some memory. Personally I'd like to set a cap for it, because otherwise when I open some memory hungry program it tries to write cache onto disk which sometimes makes the system slow. This happens when I only use SSD as cache. Not sure if it can be better with all SSD solution.
* I ran into problem with docker as well. But after change some configurations it works perfectly.
* I use zfs snapshot and zfs send/recv for backups and it is really awesome. I've written a blog about my personal offsite backup solution that you may find useful: https://www.binwang.me/2021-09-19-Personal-ZFS-Offsite-Online-Backup-Solution.html https://www.binwang.me/2021-09-19-Personal-ZFS-Offsite-Onlin...