On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Doug Reed <n0nas at amsat.org> wrote: > The negative side of ZFS was the amount of RAM it needs with large > drives. I wanted to use an old P4 with maybe 512MB of RAM, but ZFS > really wants a couple GB to do it right. > There's no harm in starting with 512MB. Things *will* work, they'll just perform poorly. But then again, on that vintage system, nothing is going to be overly snappy, with regards to storage, anyway. Eventually if you get sick of poor performance, you can either upgrade the RAM of that system or export/import to newer hardware. -Erik -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131018/c69c90ab/attachment.html>