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Does anyone here use Open ZFS on desktop? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by maxprime@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I’ve been thinking of switching from btrfs to zfs but it seems like it’s quite a bit of work. Does anyone have any experience with this?

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[–] apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I used ZFS with Arch for a while, the volume manager was what I'd call the largest benefit; in my opinion nothing else comes close to being as useful and well integrated.

I stopped because ZFS incompatibility with recent kernels (which I needed for GPU reasons) made me have to rescue my system more often than was ideal.

Some other minor downsides:

boot can take ages due to ZFS using udev-settle.
deduplication status is... Complicated.
you're kind-of stuck with the performance of your slowest vdev; L2ARC & a metadata device don't really compensate well for a zpool that is predominantly a raid-z2 of spinning rust.