Packaging ZFS

[Alberto Bursi]

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 <newtwen at 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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