Another idea: even with everything on ZFS you can fine-tune caching. I would put .bitcoin/blocks (historical data) on a separate ZFS dataset and allow only metadata caching on that dataset:

zfs set primarycache=metadata $YOUR_DATASET

Indexes like txindex probably deserve data caching, not sure.

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