OpenIndiana
So I tried OpenIndiana's live image. I digged out two of my older system for this task, since their HCL indicates no support for anything newer than Intel 8th gen. On my 8th gen intel system, the OS failed to initialise the PCIE root hub, result in a no-boot. On my 6th gen system, I reached GUI login screen with the correct resolution, but when I tried to login, X11 would crash. So I tried to boot to console, but didn't reach login prompt. So you see, running a big ZFS pool requires a lot of RAM, all my big RAM systems are too new for the OI! Is there other OpenSolaris distro I should try? How mature is the ZFS port to linux?
2025-04-07 · 1 year ago · 👍 fab
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@decant I use ZFS on my Proxmox cluster container/VM disks as well as on my ZFS NAS (4disk raidz) which (the NAS) runs as a Proxmox container. I gave the ZFS pools 4GB of ARC ram and it works well. I'm not using root-on-ZFS and I'm not sure how that would work out, and I'm not sure how well ZFS works on the latest kernels but it works well on the LTS kernels.
So my ZFS only uses 4G at maximum. You just shouldn't use deduplication, which consumes *A LOT* of ram, but without it, it works pretty well with only 4GB.
But I guess it depends on your work load, but running a few LXC containers on a ZFS SSD isn't much of a problem. At least in my case.
😎 decant [OP] · 2025-04-07 at 11:26:
@fab Thanks for the tips! So I guess a linux box is the way to go huh