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by sargun 3374 days ago
ZFS is pain if you aren't actively aware of it, and tuning it. With heterogenous workloads and containers on Linux, it fails in interesting ways. A lot of this is due to the SPL, and the opaque model of memory management it maintains.
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I don't know if I'd agree. It can be a bit of a pain to set up and get right if you've never done it before and if you don't know what you're doing, but with Solus they pride themselves on managing the whole stack and I'm sure they could easily figure it out. Also, i'm not sure what kind of workloads you're describing that it fails in - i've used ZFS on everything from servers, and big desktops to small laptops, and even mini sd cards on tablets. It hasn't once let me down and has multiple times found corruption that I would never have found had it not been for ZFS. I think most people do not realize how often corruption actually happens because they have no way of finding out about it.