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* Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS
  @ 2013-09-17  9:52 99% ` Joerg Schilling
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From: Joerg Schilling @ 2013-09-17  9:52 UTC (permalink / raw
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Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:

> Performance doesn't seem to be one of ZFS's strong points.  Is it
> considered suitable for a high-performance server?

ZFS is one of the fastest FS I am aware of (if not the fastest).
You need a sufficient amount of RAM to make the ARC useful.

The only problem I am aware with ZFS is the fact that if you ask it to grant 
consistency for a specific file at a specific time, you force it to become slow.

Jörg

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