Re: ZFS status on NetBSD

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:13:15 +0100
Marc Baudoin <babafou%babafou.eu.org@localhost> wrote:

> What's the plan for ZFS on NetBSD?

ZFS is available with NetBSD but may not be the latest version that you
referenced in your previous email.

I evaluated ZFS recently on Raspberry Pi 4 with 4 GiB of RAM in
combination with NFS and on several occasions kernel pgdaemon thread
got stuck and starting consuming 100% CPU. I switched to UFS as ZFS is
not usable on this particular hardware.

You may have better luck if your hardware supports more RAM. Test it
out and report any issues. Personally I'm not a big fan of ZFS, it has
some nice features, but this adds to the overall complexity of the file
system. I tend to prefer UFS with hardware RAID and good quality SSDs.