Benny Siegert <bsieg...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 3:52 AM <g...@duzan.org> wrote: >> p.s. NetBSD does have ZFS, but I haven't tried it, and I seem to recall >> some discussion of stability issues. > > I have been using it for a few years, never had any stability issues. > However, root on ZFS remains a bit challenging IIRC. I put ZFS on /usr > instead, which requires having a minimal /usr that is used during > boot.
There are definitely stability issues. I have had two machines lock up hard, multiple times, with netbsd-10 and pool with a single disk. It seems to take lots of activity (pkgsrc builds with elevated MAKE_JOBS) and the system running low on RAM. It smells to me like a locking error that usually, it gets away with. One of the systems that locks up has 32G of RAM. But I run firefox on it, and now I tend to exit firefox periodically and that seems to help. I say seems, because this is not reproducible at will and thus hard to reason about.
