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by hestefisk 2349 days ago
That’s likely because Synology doesn’t offer ZFS or anything near the same capabilities.
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synology uses btrfs which provides almost the same capabilities, but ZFS usually eats all the RAM it gets as some sort of cache to speed up disk operations.
You are thinking of the ARC. By default, ZFS will allocate what is available but you can constrain it as you like.