What you wished you'd known when you started - a summary

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@Mitsos

There are topics dedicated to this, and mostly other topics that have been taken over by such discussions. There are some people here that think that it’s their whole life’s purpose to defend storj on zfs, otherwise they can’t fill the void in their soul.

Well, I agree. I hated them too, till two months back. Till some months back, this and this topic came in. Which changed my stance against ZFS, with a couple of other remarks in some posts.

So my list, I wished I knew:

1. MergerFS or any RAID0-like solution, is a bad idea increasing your likelihood to lose the whole node. Just keep with 1 HDD per node.
2. That it really takes some time to set things up in a good way. Still learning. It really doesn’t make me money, but it does teach me still every month some skills.
3. ZFS isn’t memory intensive, if your use a mirrored special dev (needs two partitions of equal size on two different SSDs, to be safe) or an L2ARC device with metadata caching (needs only one partition on an SSD).