RBPI3B+ FreeBSD 12 ZFS

[Stefan Parvu]

I know ZFS would need a decent amount of RAM to start with. So for such low sized 
SBC systems, like Raspberry PI having ZFS for root might be no go.

What I meant was: how complicated would be right now for FreeBSD 12 to have an 
ARM64 RBPI3B+ image image which could use ZFS to boot from a SD Card.

Stefan Parvu
sparvu at kronometrix.org



> On 22 Feb 2019, at 17.23, Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net> wrote:
> 
> On 2/22/2019 09:07, Stefan Parvu wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Just curious, would ZFS work on a RBPI3B+ board with 1 GB RAM only 
>> using FreeBSD 12 STABLE ? the hardware is 64bit but would it boot on
>> 1 GB RAM for its own ARC internal operations ?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Stefan Parvu
>> sparvu at kronometrix.org
> 
> Are you talking about attempting to mount root off a ZFS filesystem on
> the SD card or booting it as usual and then loading zfs once running
> (e.g. to talk to a USB-attached disk)?
> 
> I think you'll find that while it might run it's a very bad idea for a
> whole host of reasons; what purpose do you have in doing this?
> 
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