I was considering looking into installing Void with ZFS on root if I ever need to reinstall the OS on my computer. So far the advantages I have read about have been mostly about snapshotting and restoration but I am admittedly more interested because it’s a shiny new file system.
I am using a laptop with 250GB SSD. Would I benefit from using ZFS? Or is it overhyped? Any input is appreciated.
Here’s some extremely unscientific data I collected:
CPU: Ryzen 2600x with PBO limits maxed zstd:1 - 38% compression ratio, ~1000MB/s write speed, all cores maxed out zstd:3 - 35% compression ratio, ~800MB/s write speed, all cores maxed out zstd:9 - 33% compression ratio, ~217MB/s write speed, all cores between 50% - 100% while running CPU: Ryzen 2600x cTDP set to 35 watts and only 2 cores & 4 threads enabled to simulate a weak processor zstd:1 - 400MB/s zstd:3 - 300MB/s zstd:9 - 82MB/s Same compression ratios and CPU usage
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This is some great work. Thank you very much.