January 27, 2014 21:32

And the experiment is a failure =( At the very least, with only 1GiB of ram and a i686 CPU, write performance was terrible (25MiB/s with ZFS vs 40MiB/s with MDraid5+ext4), and due to lack of vmalloc space, reads flat out failed. Maybe in a year or two when I'm ready to buy more/bigger disks I'll try a BSD based ZFS, but for now, despite how shiny and easy it was, ZFSOnLinux is a failure for me.

(( Edit: I should also point out that the 40MiB/s includes the first-time-creation background sync ))
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