[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#837049: Please configure zfs_arc_max in postinst

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

I had a closer look at this proposal, and given that this is a cross
distribution challenge, it seem better to me to change the default
behaviour of zfs, instead of creating a configuration file during
installation on the Linux distributions that remember to do so.

What about modifying the zfs source code and documentation to set the
zfs_arc_max default value based on the total amount of memory in the
machine?  This way fewer people would have to configure it, and those
that already did configure it will keep their override value.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen