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[Discuss] Backing up the entire filesystem




On 10/26/18 1:55 PM, Shirley M?rquez D?lcey wrote:
> Another thing to keep in mind is that ZFS does have one flaw; it's a
> memory hog. If you have a large ZFS filesystem you will need a LOT of
> RAM to get acceptable performance. But it does represent the current
> state of the art for file system data integrity.

I think as long as you don't use dedup, it works perfectly fine
on a system with 8GB or 16GB RAM.

-- Marco




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