On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 10:12:28AM +0000, Nicola Perotto wrote:
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> On 03/02/2015 22:56, James Cameron wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 03:41:32PM -0700, NOPE9 YES wrote:
> >> I wish someone would make an SBC that had
> >> 8GB of RAM on it.  ( for NAS )
> > Why?  What use case?
> >
> > Yes, I know how NAS works, on various protocols, but what special use
> > case do you have that would actually benefit from that much more
> > memory?
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> If you use ZFS you need a lot of RAM, even more than 8GB!
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

I disagree, ZFS is functional and performant with small memory
footprints, on reasonably sized filesystems.

If the served filesystem is overly large and complex, and the access
pattern demanding, then any filesystem will suffer when there is a
memory shortage.

> I think that a NAS would not be a good use for a Pi.
> A NAS is a serious thing: it contains my DATA...

Yes, that's a critical issue, can be addressed by using several Pi as
iSCSI targets.  ;-)

I'd avoid Pi because of the 32-bit architecture, instead preferring a
64-bit architecture.

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