> Am 19.12.25 um 12:48 schrieb Sad Clouds <[email protected]>: > > On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:13:15 +0100 > Marc Baudoin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What's the plan for ZFS on NetBSD? > You may have better luck if your hardware supports more RAM. Test it
ZFS should work with 4G of RAM as well, but not as „accelerated“ as with lot of ARC space in RAM. > out and report any issues. Personally I'm not a big fan of ZFS, it has > some nice features, but this adds to the overall complexity of the file > system. I tend to prefer UFS with hardware RAID and good quality SSDs. then you probably misunderstand ZFS as „some other RAID stack“ which is just one functionality. In fact, there are even lot of ZFS users running ZFS on single (!) hardware RAID array device in high load productive environments, i.e hosting platforms, large scale email platforms, cloud storage etc.. they primarily use functionality like highly efficient snapshots, storage compression as snapshot replication over WAN and even small / slow / costly network pathes (i.e. multi stage backup scenarios), where solutions like LVM, ceph and others are significantly less powerful, fast (or lightweight). performance is typically much higher then on LVM, ceph etc.. In practice, many use NetBSD UFS (or ext4 with linux) on ZFS zvol volumes in virtualization environments like XEN (netbsd provides xen dom0 as well - so it would make sense to have it). With UFS on hardware RAID you are far aeay from most of that - even with sophisticated backup tools etc.. hth, niels. — Niels Dettenbach https://www.syndicat.com https://www.syndicat.com/pub_key.asc
