Oh that is absolutely true, that filesystem loves it some memory. I would also make sure that you have at least one CPU core dedicated to it, all the dynamic striping and whatnot is pretty computationally intensive.<div><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Mike Bean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beandaemon@gmail.com" target="_blank">beandaemon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Agreed on all counts, I'm just double checking because my research suggests you probably shouldn't run it without a fair amount of memory.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Charles Burton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charles.d.burton@gmail.com" target="_blank">charles.d.burton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Depends, do you need the huge address space, fast snapshots, ssd caching, built in raid, dynamic striping, and what not? Personally I like it because it's fun and I like playing with interesting tech, not because I really need the enterprise features.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Oct 16, 2012 9:55 PM, "Mike Bean" <<a href="mailto:beandaemon@gmail.com" target="_blank">beandaemon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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What's the verdict on using ZFS on a backup server in a home environment with 6GB of RAM exactly? Overkill?<br><br>Bean<br>
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