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ZFS is very stable on FreeBSD.

• awaythrow 14y ago
  But you need a lot of extra RAM compared to the usual filesystems. Is that correct? If yes, is using ZFS worth the cost of the extra RAM?
  • cdawzrd 14y ago
    ZFS doesn't use that much RAM if you don't turn on deduplication, which is of less use in a system that serves large compressed video files than one that handles tons of read/write traffic as an office file server.
  • gauravk92 14y ago
    You don't need the extra ram. ZFS uses it as a cache, more ram, more cache. That's about it, otherwise it doesn't use much ram.
  • duaneb 14y ago
    RAM is not required; it just makes lookup faster with caching.