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by donmcronald 928 days ago
> If you want to use ZFS, then TrueNAS with sensible defaults is a great way to go.

I evaluated TrueNAS Scale about 6 months ago and bailed on it very quickly. My install with their "sensible defaults" ended up having swap partitions on all my spinning disks. That alone was enough for me to decide against using it. One bad choice likely means other bad choices in my experience. They also trampled / reset my 'zfs_zrc_max' tunable every time a VM got started (I think) and it wasn't obvious what was doing it.

I didn't think there was any value in learning the quirks of TrueNAS over doing a setup from scratch, so I ended up going with Ubuntu LTS and doing all my own config / testing.