Subj : Re: ProxMox, NAS & backups - oh my.
To   : claw
From : 2twisty
Date : Fri Jul 08 2022 10:57:15

 cl> I've not used TrueNAS on a PI but hay if you get it going I would be
 cl> interested in checking that out.  TrueNAS is cool.

Sadly, TrueNAS is x86 only at this time -- If they do make an ARM compile, I doubt it will run well (if at all) on a Pi because of the lower spec hardware.

TrueNAS's main function is to support ZFS, and to do that well requires direct access to hard drive controllers and lots of RAM, neither of which a Pi has.  

Jeff Geerling will probably try it with a Compute Module 4 if TrueNAS ever comes out in an ARM version, but many have already tried to set up ZFS on a Pi with very slow (and sometimes unreliable) results.

If you are just looking for NAS functions (NFS, iSCSI, SMB, etc) then OpenMediaVault is a good choice on a Pi..

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