[Discuss] ZFS on Raspberry Pi?

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

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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