On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM wojakstudiopro.com via illumos-discuss < [email protected]> wrote:
> I have a small VPS running Alpine Linux and it's serving a low traffic > website. I wanted to switch it to Tribblix which still supports installing > into UFS as I don't need ZFS. But illumos UFS is neglected for too long. > It's not a viable option. > > I would love to have FreeBSD UFS ported to illumos and replacing illumos > UFS. Who said illumos is only for large servers? > Who said that? Please don't perpetuate such myths. > I think my use case is valid. There are ongoing efforts to port illumos to > ARM and RISCV. But why no one see the need of upgrading illumos UFS? > Imagine you have to run ZFS on a 4GB RAM ARM SoC. You would better go with > UFS. A maintained contemporary UFS. > You don't need 4GB of memory to use ZFS. It runs on 1GB just perfectly - most of the systems I use to test and deploy Tribblix are 1GB cloud instances (EC2 or Digital Ocean) or bhyve instances. It will run on less, although the installer won't install to ZFS on a 512M system (because the installer is a ramdisk that takes about 256M of memory and there isn't enough left over). -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tbd0c00cc5a244c5a-M7b44440ac71929796c6b9078 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
