I tried to "study" what benefits moving to zfs would bring compared to the traditional Unraid array with xfs formatted drives. I failed to get a clear picture of this. I'm sure quite many will wonder this same when a stable 6.12.x will be released. Would it be possible to generate a short FAQ for this? That is,
What benefits/disadvantages there are for formatting individual Unraid array disks to zfs instead of xfs?
What benefits/disadvantages there are for changing from an Unraid array (xfs) to a zfs pool? For example, does one loose the advantage that in case of disk failure the files in other disks are still intact as the files are written to a single disk instead of distributed to several array disks?
What are the requirements of zfs? That is, I understood that it heavily utilizes RAM and therefore one should have plenty of it to maintain system performance.
ECC-memory is also mentioned when googling about zfs. Is it more important than with xfs for example? Of course, ECC should always been used but I guess most of Unraiders do not have ECC in their systems.
Etc.
Anyway, great progress on Unraid! One happy user here.