Recommended recordsize for Obsidian vault storage?

Recently got TrueNAS up and running. I want to make a dataset for syncing my Obsidian vaults across a couple different PCs and my phone using SyncThing. I see lots of discussion about recordsize for media and big files, but what about for storing Obsidian notes?

It’s lots of little text files, mostly less than a kilobyte or two. Many aren’t even over the 512 byte minimum recordsize. A much smaller number of images or other files. Lots of small changes as I update notes or make links. Would a smaller recordsize be useful, or should I stick with 128KiB? Will recordsize even matter if ZFS scales the block down to the smallest power of 2 that the data will fit inside?

Leave the default record size at 128K. ZFS already uses a variable block size so 128K is the maximum not the default.

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