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yjftsjthsd-htoday at 4:25 AM2 repliesview on HN

That's only for deduplication.

https://superuser.com/a/993019


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Lammytoday at 4:31 AM

I do like to deduplicate my BitTorrent downloads/seeding directory with my media directories so I can edit metadata to my heart's content while still seeding forever without having to incur 2x storage usage. I tune the `recordsize` to 1MiB so it has vastly fewer blocks to keep track of compared to the default 128K, at the cost of any modification wasting very slightly more space. Really not a big deal though when talking about multi-gibibyte media containers, multi-megapixel art embeds, etc.

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ekropotintoday at 7:21 AM

ZFS also uses RAM for read through cache aka ARC. However, I’m not sure how noticeable the effect from increased RAM would be - I assume it mostly benefit for read patterns with high data reuse, which is not that common.