[GLLUG] zfs on linux - lessons learned

[Charles Ulrich]

On 06/12/2014 10:31 PM, Jason L. Froebe wrote:
> 5) You need to disable dedup else your RAM will be consumed by ZFS.  If
> you want to deduplicate your volume, expect 4GB of RAM per 1TB of storage

Is this what causes ZFS to use so much memory? The thing that's always 
kept me from seriously considering ZFS for anything was the monstrous 
RAM requirements.

Thanks,
Charles