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Re:Oracle built a 1,060 node Raspberry Pi cluster by whalesalad on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:19PM (#21599064)
Sorta. At the end of the day, yes, the disks are being managed by your CPU and not a dedicated raid controller... but it's a completely different ballgame than something like mdadm.
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Re:Oracle built a 1,060 node Raspberry Pi cluster by ownagefool on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:05PM (#21599610)
Not "sorta", it's software raid and thus, like software raid, it's portable to any system that'll run the software and JBOD the drives.

Most would argue RAIDZ is better, but many of these reasons are functionality based over and about just redundancy, i.e. Copy on Write, et all.

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Re:Oracle built a 1,060 node Raspberry Pi cluster by GhettoMaestro on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:03PM (#21601153)
Friends don't let friends create RaidZ pools.

Bite the bullet of the cost of N*2 mirrors.

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Re:Oracle built a 1,060 node Raspberry Pi cluster by whalesalad on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:23PM (#21599790)
I say sorta because in most circles when one is speaking of 'software RAID' they are referring to a very specific configuration and are explicitly not referring to ZFS.
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