since I mentioned it in that ECC thread, I've never seen a need to use ZFS. Linux LVM covers all my needs for now, including caching of slower media with Optane.
I don't really have the hardware resources or mental bandwidth to spend on ZFS for a negligible gain in ... I'm not even sure, exactly ... with my current use case. the only operations I do that are bottlenecked by storage I/O wouldn't be improved by switching to ZFS.
that being said, I don't have a multi-drive NAS at the moment. but if I did, I'd probably still be using LVM on it.
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