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is ZFS available for Linux on ARM? You can take snapshots and use zfs send/receive for zero downtime , consistent backups.
by patrickg_zill 10y ago
is ZFS available for Linux on ARM? You can take snapshots and use zfs send/receive for zero downtime , consistent backups.
- drdaeman 10y agoI'm not sure about ZFS (and it could be complicated - there is a problem with Scaleway servers that they use their own kernels so you have to mess with kexec if you want to run your own), but one can certainly do the same with LVM or even "bare" device-mapper. It's non-trivial, though. At least if one haven't dealt with that stuff before.
- cyberpunk 10y agoIt's apparently supported (so says zfsonlinux.org) but I wouldn't use it for anything you care about without ECC ram -- I'm willing to bet these have cheapo controllers which don't support that though..
- taneliv 10y agoWell, I would be more hesitant to use some other file system without ECC RAM than ZFS. However, "these cloud servers are backed by Cavium ThunderX SoCs, high end processors designed for the cloud, and DDR4 ECC memory," says the article. Nevertheless, I would not consider ZFS on these to be "production ready" except for very small values of "ready."