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Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux?
And ZFS deduplication consumes an absolutely frightening amount of RAM: 5GB of RAM per 1TB of storage is recommended.
laumars
on Nov 22, 2014
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Oh totally. ZFS gets a lot right but even ZFS can't make deduplication practical for all bar a few fringe cases.
badgersandjam
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That's not much. Our baseline config HP DL380s come with 64GiB RAM (!!)
KaiserPro
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File servers should really have Looooots of ram. after all its cheap cache (compared to a fusion io card) Our file servers have 384 gigs of ram. The next gen will probably have much more.
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