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Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 months agoI have given up on ZFS entirely because of how much of a pig it was.
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Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 months agoI have given up on ZFS entirely because of how much of a pig it was.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A pig on what?
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t know what that other dude’s on about.
The general consensus on zfs is (or at least was) that your need 1Gb of RAM per terabyte of zpool. Especially if you want to run deduplication.
If you don’t need dedupe the requirements drop significantly.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 months ago
Looks like I angered people by not loving ZFS. I don’t feel like being bagged on further for using it wrong or whatever.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I didn’t downvote you, I’m genuinely curious what you mean about zfs being a “pig”.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 months ago
I was trying to use it for a mirrored setup with TrueNAS and found it to be flakey to the point of uselessness. I was essentially told that I was using it wrong because I had USB disks. It allowed me to set it up and provided no warnings but after losing my test data for the fifth time (brand new disks - that wasn’t the issue) I gave up and setup a simple rsync job to mirror data between the two ext4 disks.
If losing power effectively wipes my data then it’s no damn use to me. I’m sure it’s great in a hermetically sealed data centre or something but if I can’t pull one of the mirrored disks and plug it into another machine for data recovery then it’s no damn good to me.