Comment on Netflix begins the deployment of their own content delivery networkparentComments−duaneb14yZFS is very stable on FreeBSD.−awaythrow14yBut you need a lot of extra RAM compared to the usual filesystems. Is that correct? If yes, is using ZFS worth the cost of the extra RAM?−gauravk9214yYou don't need the extra ram. ZFS uses it as a cache, more ram, more cache. That's about it, otherwise it doesn't use much ram.−cdawzrd14yZFS doesn't use that much RAM if you don't turn on deduplication, which is of less use in a system that serves large compressed video files than one that handles tons of read/write traffic as an office file server.−duaneb14yRAM is not required; it just makes lookup faster with caching.
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ZFS is very stable on FreeBSD.
But you need a lot of extra RAM compared to the usual filesystems. Is that correct? If yes, is using ZFS worth the cost of the extra RAM?
You don't need the extra ram. ZFS uses it as a cache, more ram, more cache. That's about it, otherwise it doesn't use much ram.
ZFS doesn't use that much RAM if you don't turn on deduplication, which is of less use in a system that serves large compressed video files than one that handles tons of read/write traffic as an office file server.
RAM is not required; it just makes lookup faster with caching.