Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:32:16 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: Stephen Hocking <stephen.hocking@gmail.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The minimum amount of memory needed to use ZFS. Message-ID: <20151223113216.GA4535@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BxzKjDQ_vUfgz4LvvcBE950=-ww7ukCbFmZz1vnzhGrNCucbQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BxzKjDQ_vUfgz4LvvcBE950=-ww7ukCbFmZz1vnzhGrNCucbQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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).
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