ZFS Metadata On New Server

[Exard3k]

@Arimil

Do you need that much storage for metadata? I was reading that it was ~1GB per TB in the array. Surely you don’t have 800TB of storage.

You can also store small files on the special vdev. I personally have millions of them and it speeds up the pool far more than the metadata (which is mostly stored in ARC anyway). So a TB of special vdev has it’s value, my vdev has 420GB allocated as of yesterday, 70GB being metadata.