NFS is great if you want to mount/share a file system. You can also use iscsi to share an actual "drive." You can boot off the SDcard can mount an iscsi shared block device as the root partition.
> Netboot the pi and skip the SD altogether. Nfs mount the drives from your > file sever. Far easier and more reliable that way. Also good for playing > with clusters. > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 1:11 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think this is true with an RPI3, but the RPI4 has USB-3 and had pretty >> good access. Not great, but pretty good. >> >> For me, I use the SDcard on a RPI just to boot it. I mount a USB->SATA >> cable and an SSD for the root partition. I've had too many SDcards die >> on >> me. >> >> > Kent Borg wrote: >> >> Anyone here played with ZFS on a Raspberry Pi? >> >> >> >> It seems it should "just work" (providing one has enough RAM), but >> when >> >> I do >> >> a web search I see people talking about difficulties. >> > >> > >> > I assume that due to the Pi's funky boot process, it's not a >> > great candidate for your root filesystem. >> > >> > 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. For the sake >> > of learning something? >> > >> > The Pi has limited disk bandwidth and limited network bandwidth. >> > It's not a good candidate for a home fileserver. It's cheap-ish, >> > but it's not very cheap compared to a used PC of superior CPU, >> > I/O and bandwidth. It is small, but adding more than one disk to >> > it makes it not very small. >> > >> > -dsr- >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Discuss mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
