OpenZFS Could Soon See Much Better Deduplication Support

[timofonic]

With ZFS you can allocate a SSD as a cache device for your storage like a "hybrid" drive. Sadly on Linux thus far you lose that cache when you reboot. On BSD's it persists between reboots.

I see.

Can ZFS be used as Swap too? What about persistent computing and never need to close apps unless misbehave?

[rleigh]

Can ZFS be used as Swap too?

Yes. Create a ZVOL and then run mkswap on it. Works perfectly.

[Bubbles_by_day]

"Performant" is not an adjective. It's a noun meaning a performer in a play.

Yes, language constantly evolves, new words are added and others fade away every day. And all words are just "made up". Usually when a word is "officially recognized", it has already been in use for quite a while. One dictionary has even added "performant". I get it. I'm usually the first to point all that out when someone says "that's not a word".

But this word in particular drives me absolutely ape-sh*t like no other word in spoken or written language. Mainly because it became popular among wanna-be-nerd corporate brownnosing ladder-climber types with no actual human talent other than thinking they sound sophisticated. Then it trickled down into an epidemic of stupidity. (Yes, I get it, nowadays not all uses are stupid.)

For the love of all that is holy, stop using that stupid f***ing word.