Packaging ZFS

[Philip Prindeville]

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 <bobafetthotmail at 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 <newtwen at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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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