Comment by squarefoot
6 years ago
So what would be a viable ZFS alternative on a Linux based NAS I'm planning to build in a few months? I'm currently running Nas4Free on a giant rack sized thing I built using a Mini-ITX Atom board years ago, and ZFS works like a charm, but I also intend to move some day to the ARM architecture which unfortunately the *BSD based NAS software doesnt support (yet). I'm tempted by this smaller hardware in particular: https://wiki.kobol.io/helios64/intro/ So far the only viable option would be Openmediavault which supports ZFS only through external modules which I'd be not entirely comfortable with. I'd only arrange disks as RAID1 pairs however.
I use BTRFS and it works fine. Just don't use RAID5/6 and you should be good to go.
I've also heard success stories using ZFS on Linux, but I haven't bothered because I'd just rather use something that's in the kernel instead of something outside it.