[oi-dev] Plans to lower minimum memory requirements?

[Joerg Schilling]

gonczi at comcast.net wrote:

> I doubt it. 
>
> Because of the copy on write nature of the ZFS design, it needs a ton of memory to 
> buffer the transactions in between syncing out to disc. 
>
> It actually does run in less memory, it is just dog slow. 

Low memory systems are not expected to run on ZFS but on UFS.

In general, it helps a lot if you remove unneeded drivers from the kernel load 
directories as then the kernel will not even try to load them in case a 
reconfiguration request occurs.

Jörg

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