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Subject: Re: UFS+J panics on HEAD
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On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:58:48PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
> While it might be a shame to see FFS go by the wayside are there any
> big reasons why you would rather stick with FFS instead of moving
> to ZFS with all the benefits that brings?

 - ZFS eats bytes for breakfast.  It is completely inappropriate
   for anything with less than 4GB RAM.

 - ZFS performs poorly under disk-nearly-full conditions.

mcl