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Re:In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon' by ahofmann on Monday July 20, 2020 @11:24AM (#23898705)
That zfs needs so much RAM is a myth that can be easily refuted. Start a Linux VM with hardly any RAM and let zfs run on it. Works great. There are also sources for this since years: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/3s7vrd/so_you_...
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Re:In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon' by Mekantis on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @06:30AM (#23905756)
Look at the comments. He has barely any files on that server. "Yeah, you can use ZFS with barely any RAM."

(if you don't have any files) Doesn't do me much good with my 10TB's of data.

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