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Re: ZFS on kFreeBSD



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Florian Weimer wrote:
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> Is ZFS producton-ready?  On Solaris, Sun recommends to reformat and
> restore from backup should your system panic on boot:

Personally, I find the following comment from the FreeBSD ZFS tuning
guide most scary:

> To use ZFS, at least 1GB of memory is recommended (for all architectures) 
> but more is helpful as ZFS needs *lots* of memory. Depending on your
> workload, it may be possible to use ZFS on systems with less memory, but
> it requires careful tuning to avoid panics from memory exhaustion in the
> kernel.
(http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide)

If a file system can cause the kernel to panic due to running out of
memory, something is very wrong!

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