How can I make most use of zfs for my photo collection?

[swc-phil]

@Protopia

I am unclear why you have a performance requirement for such a thing, and it adds complexity and increases the risk of an admin mistake.

It was a PBS requirement. (I think that) I am aware of the risks.

@Protopia

However, I do think it likely that you might want to implement some containerised application which will help to index and catalogue your photos,

Yeah, almost. PBS data chunks. Here is the topic. I use a pair of intel D5-5530 960GB.

@Protopia

So you might be better off using whatever you were planning to use for a sVdev to create such an SSD pool.

IMO, if you plan to have 2 pools (flash and rust) on the same system, then it could be beneficial to have a single pool with sVDEV instead. Because with special_small_blocks set bigger than recordsize, you can make the entire dataset be stored on flash. And you are boosting the rust pool (metadata) performance at the same time. Thus, obtaining some kind of tiered storage.

I saw many locals use separate (mirrored) pools for apps – this approach could be beneficial for them. I can be wrong.

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@Protopia

Your English is way way better than either of my 2nd/3rd languages!!

Welp, maybe, just maybe, it is B2. Nevertheless, 95% of my posts (including this one) are ChatGPT-generated verified by a spell checker tool. And some are translated afterwards to make sure the key points are preserved.