Packaging ZFS

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Aug 10, 2023, at 11:49 AM, Torbjörn Jansson <torbjorn at jansson.tech> wrote:
> 
> On 2023-08-06 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
> 
> you could always run openwrt as a vm under a hypervisor, for example proxmox.
> then you can keep openwrt without any extra packages like zfs and create extra vms as needed, proxmox already supports zfs if im not mistaken.
> 
> if your lucky with the iommu groups you might even be able to pass thru one or more physical network interfaces to the openwrt vm directly.



I can't assume that the underlying hardware supports virtualization or does so in a meaningful way.  Some of the platforms I'm looking at are resource lean.  I threw out the Xeon-D as an example as my prototyping hardware, but I'm not going to assume that everyone has comparable hardware.

-Philip