[Discuss] ZFS on Raspberry Pi?

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

I know this is a little bit off topic, but why would you set up a machine
to be a server? Nobody does that any more.

Create VMs to perform the services and have the IPs mapped to the VM and
hostmap the IP. That way you can back up the "server" and in case of
emergency, almost any Linux running can take the VM image and spin it up.


> Kent Borg wrote:
>> On 7/28/22 09:40, Dan Ritter wrote:
>> > I see no reason why it wouldn't work for other things, but I
>> > would have to ask why you would want to do that.
>>
>> Very likely silliness.
>>
>> Or, maybe not. Small, quiet. The Raspberry Pi 4 is decently powerful.
>> For a
>> low volume e-mail server, more than sufficient.
>
> That's where consolidation comes in. If you have a low-volume
> email server, and a low-volume web server, and a chat service,
> and a NextCloud service, and media storage... well, they can all
> go on one medium sized machine instead of five Pis.
>
>
>> And in the last few days I started hearing funny noises, quiet, only
>> occasional; I thought they were coming from outside. Today I realize
>> they
>> are coming from that machine. A bearing is going to give up soon.
>
> Fans are cheap and easy to replace, and power supplies are easy
> to replace. Get ahead of the problem.
>
> -dsr-
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