[Discuss] ZFS on Raspberry Pi?

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

NFS is great if you want to mount/share a file system. You can also use
iscsi to share an actual "drive." You can boot off the SDcard can mount an
iscsi shared block device as the root partition.


> 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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