[OpenIndiana-discuss] beagleboard (arm) port?

[taemun]

It's generally accepted that two things can break a ZFS pool: the use of
non-ECC RAM; and storage devices which do not respect cache flushes. You're
aiming for a system which is likely to have both. The latter by virtue of
the fact that most USB <=> SATA controllers often don't respect sync
requests. Both of these can lead to broken metadata/uberblocks and hence a
broken pool.

Not that ZFS will be any *less* reliable than any given file system, it's
just more likely to be able to tell you about the problems.

Cheers,

On 9 February 2011 00:44, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>        I was thinking of building a minimal low performance/experimental
> zfs filer on a beagleboard ( http://beagleboard.org ) or something similar
> with a 2tb mirror disk set attached via usb and a serial console.  Are there
> any projects or plans to compile/port OpenIndiana to arm?  If not, I see
> that Ubuntu already works on beagleboard, so that, plus the Livermore
> zfs-on-linux port ( http://zfsonlinux.org ) would perhaps do the trick for
> now, I guess..
>
> thoughts?
>
> thx
> jake
>
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