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		Wowfunhappy on March 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ZFS on a single core RISC-V hardware with 512MB I thought it does generally apply for dedup, though, because ZFS is then required to keep the dedup tables in memory?

rdc12 on March 14, 2022 [–]

It isn't required (in the strict sense) to keep the dedup table in memory, the problem is that performance is dire when it doesn't. It would be pretty similar to virtual memory thrashing, when the table is not fully in memory.

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