<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Doug Reed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:n0nas@amsat.org" target="_blank">n0nas@amsat.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":4o" style="overflow:hidden">The negative side of ZFS was the amount of RAM it needs with large<br>
drives. I wanted to use an old P4 with maybe 512MB of RAM, but ZFS<br>
really wants a couple GB to do it right.</div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>There's no harm in starting with 512MB. Things *will* work, they'll just perform poorly. But then again, on that vintage system, nothing is going to be overly snappy, with regards to storage, anyway.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Eventually if you get sick of poor performance, you can either upgrade the RAM of that system or export/import to newer hardware.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">-Erik<br><br></div></div>