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by Bayart 1707 days ago
What myth ? ZFS is significantly slower than run-off-the-mill file systems (namely ext4) on small file random r/w IOPS. Which makes sense because it's made for throughput and redundancy, not latency.

It's a pretty shit file system for a single OS or a software development drive, unless you really need snapshots (you don't).

ZFS is made for big arrays of drives with lots of RAM. If that's not your use case, you're just wasting time and energy for the sake of it.