Correct. I have a FreeNAS box that has 8GB of ECC RAM. I am not using
dedup. I don't plan on using ZFS dedup. rather I'll stick to BackupPC's
dedup.
Thanks,
--b
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Dan Pritts <[email protected]> wrote:
> for normal-ish filesystem usage, ZFS is ram-hungry but not ram-insane.
> Just don't turn on deduplication and you'll be fine with a few GB of RAM.
>
> More importantly though, it's unlikely that you'll be able to transfer
> your pool without (temporarily) having enough disk to store two copies.
> You might dork around with pulling out one of your raid5 disks as the start
> of your new zfs pool, but that is risky. make sure to do a scrub on the
> raid5 before you do that.
>
> It sounds like an awful lot of hassle just to be rid of systemd. I am not
> a fan either, but the "big four" linux distros all switched to it - unless
> you plan to give up on linux altogether you might as well get used to it.
>
> Pasi Koivisto <[email protected]>
> March 14, 2016 at 8:48 AM
> It might be possible to setup Linux with ZFS, create a zpool (1 disk might
> be enough for the transfer) and copy over the bpc pool. Export that zpool,
> setup FreeBSD and import the zpool.
>
> Make sure you have plenty of ram as ZFS works better the more ram it has.
>
> /P
>
>
>
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> Brad Alexander <[email protected]>
> March 13, 2016 at 9:11 PM
> I'm getting kinda frustrated with the entire systemd thing on linux,. So
> what I'm wondering is what the procedure is (if it is possible) to convert
> the OS from Linux to FreeBSD, and converting the base filesystem to ZFS,
> preferably without losing my pool. The hardware in question is a Dell
> PE1850. If I'm going to use ZFS, I will convert the RAID 5 array to JBOD.
> Any other sage advice from folks running backuppc on FreeBSD?
>
> As I type this, I suspect I am going to lose my pool, so I should probably
> archive the older backups. Is there any way to re-import them into the pool
> after the conversion is done?
>
> Thanks,
> --b
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