Why ZFS Is Cool
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A personal blog post argues that ZFS with sync=disabled suits a homelab better than ext4, because the author only needs write ordering, not fsync durability. On two mirrored HDDs, disk utilization fell from 13% to 2.7% and average write latency from 16 ms to 2 ms.