<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">RonaldB,<br> <br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">How many drives in your ZFS pool on that old PC?<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">What is the CPU hit like when doing disk I/O? Egregious? Or merely a blip?<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Reason I ask, I wonder how ZFS would play with a laptop, especially with battery life and fan ramping up due to CPU hit.<br><br>Ron S.<br><br></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 3:28\u202fPM Ronald Barnes via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote on 2025-07-25 10:03:<br>
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> If you suggest a topic we won't ask you to present<br>
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I'd like to know more about ZFS.<br>
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It works great on my old PC and I'm going to switch to it on my current one.<br>
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Can't go wrong with it, do *not* need ECC RAM to use it, and it's FLOSS.<br>
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The podcast <a href="http://2.5admins.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">2.5admins.com</a> by Joe Ressington with Alan Jude (FreeBSD, ZFS <br>
dev, Hamilton resident) and Jim Salter has a lot of discussion on ZFS <br>
but it seems the file system popularity doesn't match its awesomeness.<br>
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So, probably would make a good presentation.<br>
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