[Discuss] ZFS on Raspberry Pi?

[Steven Santos]

Netboot the pi and skip the SD altogether. Nfs mount the drives from your
file sever.  Far easier and more reliable that way.  Also good for playing
with clusters.

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 1:11 PM <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:

> I think this is true with an RPI3, but the RPI4 has USB-3 and had pretty
> good access. Not great, but pretty good.
>
> For me, I use the SDcard on a RPI just to boot it. I mount a USB->SATA
> cable and an SSD for the root partition. I've had too many SDcards die on
> me.
>
> > Kent Borg wrote:
> >> Anyone here played with ZFS on a Raspberry Pi?
> >>
> >> It seems it should "just work" (providing one has enough RAM), but when
> >> I do
> >> a web search I see people talking about difficulties.
> >
> >
> > I assume that due to the Pi's funky boot process, it's not a
> > great candidate for your root filesystem.
> >
> > I see no reason why it wouldn't work for other things, but I
> > would have to ask why you would want to do that. For the sake
> > of learning something?
> >
> > The Pi has limited disk bandwidth and limited network bandwidth.
> > It's not a good candidate for a home fileserver. It's cheap-ish,
> > but it's not very cheap compared to a used PC of superior CPU,
> > I/O and bandwidth. It is small, but adding more than one disk to
> > it makes it not very small.
> >
> > -dsr-
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