svn commit: r356758 - in head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall: . scripts

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 08:06:59AM +0800, Ben Woods wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Before I commit phabricator review D23224, is there any final comments?
> 
> Particularly on these 2 lines of help-text:
> msg_partitioning_zfs_help="ZFS is recommended if you have at least 4GB RAM"
> msg_partitioning_ufs_help="UFS is recommended if you have less than 4GB of
> RAM"
> 
> There is some disagree about what these 2 recommendations should be.
> 
> 4GB was recommended by: imp, emaste, philip, eugen, dteske
> 8GB was recommended by: mike
> 16GB was recommended by: cem
> 
> The 4GB limit seems to have the best consensus, however there was some
> debate about whether ZFS is recommended on a system with 4GB, or only
> systems with MORE THAN 4GB.
> 
> As for the ZFS auto-tuning, I see that as being a separate discussion
> (which could ultimately change this recommendation, but shouldn't prevent
> us from committing this help text now).

May experience: ZFS recomended for 1GB and above.