UFS or ZFS for a 2008 era Core 2 Duo laptop?

[kriptomahsun]

It's an HP 6735b laptop, uses core 2 duo p8400. Still has 4GB ram. But I use it for some testing, web browsing. Which is better?

 

[chrbr]

From my point of view ZFS should be fine. But I have always used tiny window managers and I have never had opened lots of tabs in a web browser.

 

[drr]

While both should work fine, I think ZFS can take advantage of more memory (ARC). ZFS offers snapshots, boot environments, etc. however, for the use case mentioned, UFS should be fine. While Root-on-ZFS uses entire disk, UFS can be used with partition which can be useful if you plan to install multiple OSes on this machine.

 

[cy@]

You can do either. I used ZFS on a 768 MB 32-bit Pentium-M Acer laptop. You will need to tune it, considerably. The FreeBSD wiki has a page on ZFS tuning. Make sure to artificially limit the ARC to something like 64-128 MB.

UFS works fine too. Your choice.