The minimum amount of memory needed to use ZFS.

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 09:43:37PM +1100, Stephen Hocking wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Inspired by this article:
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/rsync-net-zfs-replication-to-the-cloud-is-finally-here-and-its-fast/
> 
> I am wondering about changing my offsite back strategy, which currently is
> made up of a Raspberry Pi with an external 3TB drive sitting at my
> brother's house, with periodic manual rsyncs. I'd like to change that to
> doing zfs replications.
> 
> I want to use some of my ARM based hardware as the target for the ZFS
> replication, owing to its low power usage. I have a few Cubiboxes floating
> around with around 2G of RAM, and a RPI2 or a Banana Pi with 1G. It'd have
> a UFS root on the SD card, and ZFS on the external drive.
> 
> Any ideas?

I am do install FreeBSD i386 10 on the VirtualBox VM with 384M RAM and
successful pass `make buildworld`.

In the real world all depends on workload and minimal depends from FS
(UFS or ZFS).