FreeBSD on the raspberry pi

Re:FreeBSD on the raspberry pi by bespoke_engnr on Sunday January 03, 2016 @12:08PM (#10831269)

Aside from the "needs many gigs of RAM, even without deduplication turned on" angle, the lack of ECC memory would prevent me from using ZFS on raspi.

Sooner or later you will trash your data unless you're using ECC memory (which the Raspberry Pi RAM chips are not): http://louwrentius.com/please-use-zfs-with-ecc-memory.html

For the record, I also think it's cool to get this compiled and running on RasPi; just wanted to add the ECC info for anyone now thinking of doing something with this in production :-D.

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Re:FreeBSD on the raspberry pi by jlgaddis on Sunday January 03, 2016 @06:46PM (#10833174)

ZFS without ECC is no worse than any other file system which doesn't do checksumming.

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Re:FreeBSD on the raspberry pi by lorenzfx on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:11AM (#10835130)

See a quote from Matt(hew) Ahrens (zfs developer)[0]:

  There's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use
  of ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem. [...] I would simply
  say: if you love your data, use ECC RAM. Additionally, use a
  filesystem that checksums your data, such as ZFS.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1235679&p=2...

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