[Discuss] Debian 11 -> 12

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 5/30/24 09:47, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> All that said, OMG ZFS is absolutely the way to go for any new deployment
> unless a bare bones hardware performance is required.

I would amend that: Any new deployment?that is conventional (from ZFS's 
perspective) and can afford the necessary expertise.

I have played with a lot of software over the years, and when I tried 
ZFS, I got it to work on my Intel laptop. Though personally, as a matter 
of taste, I found it ornery. And it flat out *crashed* when I tried to 
do the same stuff on a Raspberry PI 4. I was certainly doing unusual 
things, if nothing else running ZFS on a Raspberry PI 4 is apparently 
weird. But I still don't expect mainstream software to crash in my face, 
and certainly not software that I am supposed to trust my data to.

As far as I can tell ZFS is a specialized tool, with impressive 
features, but rough edges. It is not a smoothly crafted, general purpose 
package suited to a general audience.

-kb, the Kent whose Raspberry PI 4 is, at this moment, running a custom 
built kernel so it can happily boot and run from a pair of spinning 
drives, using Linux SW raid 1, which though limited and doesn't scale to 
gigantic disks very well, otherwise works great, across architectures, 
even when used in weird ways.