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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2012 17:05:33 -0500
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, lev@FreeBSD.org, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: UFS+J panics on HEAD
Message-ID:  <20120523220533.GA11122@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <8D72700F5CA4461BAD1C98908689CB9E@multiplay.co.uk>
References:  <38A5BC8F-A8FB-4371-AB1D-9548F5957254@lists.zabbadoz.net> <20120523131046.GC2358@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <12410676034.20120524013853@serebryakov.spb.ru> <8D72700F5CA4461BAD1C98908689CB9E@multiplay.co.uk>

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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



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