Thanks, Alberto. I'm wondering how much work making it cross-build packages is going to be...
Digging into it now... > On Aug 7, 2023, at 3:23 AM, Alberto Bursi <bobafetthotm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ZFS would be useful for any device with a few GB of RAM that has data drives > (a NAS for example). I've used ZFS extensively on x86 systems with other > Linux distros (Debian/Proxmox and OpenSUSE). > I think ZFS support is a good thing. > > Booting from ZFS is probably not necessary for OpenWrt but zfs snapshots are > used by some BSD distros (TrueNAS Core) and maybe Ubuntu as a way to version > the rootfs and revert to an older OS version in case of problems with updates > (similar to what the Turris Omnia and OpenSUSE does with btrfs afaik). > > Afaik the ZFS project does support the two "major" archs aka x86_64 and > ARM64, and maybe Power. People have been using ZFS on Raspberry Pis and on > some Rockchip boards (in Debian/Ubuntu/Armbian/RaspberryOS) for years at this > point. > > -Alberto > > On 06/08/23 21:39, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> I don't know... I have a Xeon D-1548 based 1U Supermicro server with a 4TB >> NVMe stick that would make a decent file server/NAS... >>> On Aug 6, 2023, at 11:46 AM, Paul D <newt...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Pretty sure not. I'm receptive to ZFS and have used it in a few projects. >>> Openwrt tends to focus on (devices with) smaller flash drives. Other FS >>> better suited to such env. >>> >>> No ZFS is in available software packages today, in any case. >>> >>> >>> On 2023-08-06 00:53, Philip Prindeville wrote: >>>> Has anyone tried to package ZFS (more correctly, OpenZFS) for OpenWRT? Is >>>> there any interest in doing so? >>>> >>>> https://github.com/openzfs/zfs >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
