On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:45:15 +0100, Mick wrote:

> > emerge zfs works too :)
> >
> > I really like the way ZFS just lets you get on with things.
>
> Does anyone run it on a desktop/laptop as their day to day fs?

Yes.

> Any
> drawbacks or gotchas?  Other than reliability, how does it perform
> compared say to ext4?

I haven't benchmarked it. It feels as if it may be a little slower on my
desktop with spinning disks, but that may be down to other factors, like
impatience. It flies on my laptop's SSD.

Additional note:

*Of course* it will be slower than ext*, because during every read it ensures that the block being read has a proper checksum.

Likewise on writes.

But that IMO is very worth it just for the additional peace-of-mind, knowing you will never ever have a silent corruption.


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