Only ZFS dedup uses goobles of RAM, and use of that is discouraged anyway.
> I don't have GB of RAM, CPU and HD space to build everything from ports, and most importantly, no need.
Last I checked, Debian now supports ZFS in form of a source DKMS package. No need to maintain your own setup.
If you go with Ubuntu instead, which provides binary ZFS packages, you can also use it as a rootfs to get full advantage of its capabilities[1].
That said, I've decided to just stick with btrfs, because it's in the mainline Linux kernel, and works well enough for my needs with absolutely zero hassle.
FreeBSD is nice though. No harm in trying it out to widen your horizon :)
Only ZFS dedup uses goobles of RAM, and use of that is discouraged anyway.
> I don't have GB of RAM, CPU and HD space to build everything from ports, and most importantly, no need.
Last I checked, Debian now supports ZFS in form of a source DKMS package. No need to maintain your own setup.
If you go with Ubuntu instead, which provides binary ZFS packages, you can also use it as a rootfs to get full advantage of its capabilities[1].
That said, I've decided to just stick with btrfs, because it's in the mainline Linux kernel, and works well enough for my needs with absolutely zero hassle.
FreeBSD is nice though. No harm in trying it out to widen your horizon :)
[1] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-16.04-Root-on-...