[TUHS] FreeBSD behind the times? (was: Favorite unix design principles?)

[Will Senn]

On 2/4/21 1:46 AM, Chris Torek wrote:
> For what it's worth, you don't *have* to use compression on ZFS.
> But everything still goes through the ARC, which is ... messy.
> And eats memory for breakfast and then more memory for snacks and
> lunch and more snacks and so on.  Fortunately memory is cheap, if
> you have a modern box.  Unfortunately, I still don't, yet.
>
> ZFS has a ton of stuff in it.  That, also, is messy, and not a
> great thing in terms of kernel size and security and alacrity and
> so on.  But it has some really cool ideas in it.  I'm perfectly
> happy to use it, or will be once I build a new box (still haven't
> made the jump to an AMD system with ECC).
>
> Chris
OMG! It's a memory hog, for sure, and messy :)