ZPool not mounting at boot

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 14:52, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> Yes, one of the reasons I steer away from RAID, you have to go to
> extreme lengths with it to actually gain security IMHO.  As it's a
> *backup* system I only need what it contains if one of my other
> systems fails.  The chances of simultaneous failures of both main and
> backup systems is small enough for me not to want to go to further
> complexity on the backup which, anyway, I believe makes it more rather
> than less likely to go wrong.

So long as the MTBF is longer than one hard disk, I favour it. I've
been using it for decades now.  My old home server was a cast-off HP
ProLiant ML110 (1st gen, 32-bit P4) with a Dell PERC UltraIDE RAID
controller in it, and 6 x 80GB IDE disks. Biggest I could amass a pile
of them and some spares.

That replaced an old Gateway with 4 x 40GB.

Then I replaced the HP with a MicroServer with 4 x 300GB drives. Now,
the RasPi with 4 x 2TB drives. They cost me about £150 from Morgan
Computers.


> I've swapped back and forth between that and Ubuntu and find the
> differences so slight, particularly when running headless, that it
> makes very little difference.

Well, TBH, I put RaspBian x86 on my Sony Vaio P a fortnight ago. It's
as lightweight as CrunchBang++ -- uses 200MB running. It's quite quick
even on this fairly feeble dual-core Atom, maxed out with 2GB RAM. I
haven't played much but it went on easily and it works.

There aren't many 32-bit distros left now. :-(

> I can see little difference between what's available on my xubuntu
> systems and what's available on the Pi systems, e.g. on the Pi
> 'apt-cache search zfs' shows loads of stuff, including:-

Huh. Well, I did say "AFAIK".

I know it's not in SUSE or openSUSE because of licensing concerns, and
for the same reasons I suspect it's not in any RH distro.

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