On: I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS

[tambourine_man]

Is that really the case? Can you point to some references backing that up? (Hehe, unintentional pun)

[rincebrain → tambourine_man]

ZFS will happily use a large amount of RAM for caching if you have it, but it'll run fine on a recent Pi (3 or 4, or not raspberry at all).

It'll run fine but more sadly on older Pis running 32-bit kernels, since it does a looooooooot of 64-bit and wider operations, so you pay a nasty tax on that on 32-bit things. (Though the virtual address space limits might actually be sadder than the 64-bit operation penalty there, really...)

[tambourine_man → rincebrain]

That's surprising. I may try on my Pi. I have 40TB and am very happy with SnapRAID, but ZFS always seemed liked the “correct but expensive” solution.

[waynesonfire → rincebrain]

I'm running ZFS on the smallest AWS instance, running FreeBSD, and it does what i want it to do.

[boomboomsubban → tambourine_man]

TrueNAS' general requirements are 8GB, and they spell out when you want more. Most of the situations you'd want more you'd also want more on RAID. https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/gettingstarted/corehardwar...