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ZFS will happily use a large amount of RAM for caching if you have it, but it'll run fine on a recent Pi (3 or 4, or not raspberry at all).

It'll run fine but more sadly on older Pis running 32-bit kernels, since it does a looooooooot of 64-bit and wider operations, so you pay a nasty tax on that on 32-bit things. (Though the virtual address space limits might actually be sadder than the 64-bit operation penalty there, really...)



That's surprising. I may try on my Pi. I have 40TB and am very happy with SnapRAID, but ZFS always seemed liked the “correct but expensive” solution.


I'm running ZFS on the smallest AWS instance, running FreeBSD, and it does what i want it to do.




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