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