RE[4]: ZFS in Linux - OS News

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If you're building a games machine, then you don't want or need ZFS. If you're building a file server then you do. Sure, ZFS scrubs noticibly slows the system, but at least they can be performed on a live system where as fsck can't (you have to mount the file system in as readonly) Plus it's not hard to cron the scrubs to run over night when the system is likely sat idle.

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