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Comment by smarmelling

2 hours ago

I agree I think one of the main things I learned from all this was that I should probably buy / set up a real NAS. I’ll look into zfs pool thanks for the comment!

I liked the post because it tells a true story about one of the remaining problems that are hard to solve well without a 3rd party.

Fair warning with ZFS: do not turn on deduplication at the moment.

There is a straight up data loss bug in 2.4.3 (zeroed out files, totally silent).

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/18366

This caused all sorts of grief at day job where dedupe was useful for a big cache. Conversely I've run ZFS at home for like 15 years at this point without trouble. But this one is an absolute nightmare.