ZFS thumb drive RAID

[@davidkierzkowski]

a zip drive?!

[@krnl386]

Well, technically it's a ZIL drive now. 😜

[@maltoNitho]

Rouben Tchakhmakhtchian Now THAT’S funny.

[@DiyintheGhetto]

I would be interested in seeing the howto on this. Even if it's a old video. The beaglebone i haven't seen a raid on it into now. and doing it with flash drives would be nice.

[@luckiic5714]

It it possible to do that in Windows 10 maybe with installing drivers on usb that will make it look like a hard drive in Windows 10

[@krnl386]

LCgaming GD sure you can use Windows software RAID to do this. It wouldn’t be ZFS, though...

[@felisuco_com]

how long till drives start to fail? do you use it usually?

[@krnl386]

Friki Nivel 100 since these were old, free drives, I had to replace more than half of them. This setup isn’t really meant to be practical, it’s for show/fun. Very geeky/nerdy fun.

[@felisuco_com]

I know is not practical, but is still up? flash drives dies very easyly, i was thinking to do something similar with 256GB sd cards and usb readers. They died together or they just died one after one? just wondering if this can survive eith a raid zfs z2 for a long time, using it, or just usb memories are as crap that is impossible.

[@ExperimentalExperiments]

​@@felisuco_com ​ Ha, isn't it a bonus from hobby perspective if you get to do raid repair every weekend due to disk failure(s)

[@GabrielMillerd]

Did you do the classic "run it until corruption occurred" and watch zfs cope, its a miracle to witness?

[@krnl386]

Still running, actually. Drives are slowly dying... and ZFS is coping! Uptime 62 days and counting! :)

[@GabrielMillerd]

If you look at the suggested videos you will see how Sun and others have shown how silent corruption occurs so easily on flash drives and how zfs dectects and repairs. Pretty cool. I am sure it has been doing it all this time.

[@krnl386]

Oh yes, I've been using it for years in production. This is more of a pet project.

[@unfa00]

Could you point me to any reference about this? I am interested to find out more :)

[@krnl386]

I built it myself using the ZFS on Linux guides available online. The trick it to manage memory when running on a BeagleBone Black board with limited RAM.

[@luckiic5714]

Lmao why so many dislikes

[@krnl386]

This whole thing was a completely useless project. I am a bit bummed that nobody is impressed by the fact that I am running ZFS on Linux on a BeagleBone Black (it's like a Raspberry Pi)! ZFS normally requires a 64-bit server with tons of RAM and getting it to run on Linux with less than a gig of RAM requires a few tweaks... I guess very few people share my sense of... humour? ;)

[@maltoNitho]

Rouben Tchakhmakhtchian I’m impressed! Fun video but I kind of wanted more than (just) an awesome light show. A quick explanation of how you set the board up, the ZFS tweaks etc. But fun to see in action for sure.

[@zezeandjr4110]

Instead of playing stupid, annoying music, maybe you could have shown how you put such RAID together, that would've bee more useful.

[@krnl386]

Zeze Andjr fair enough. The music was part of KZbin’s royalty free selection, and there really isn’t much of a selection there... With regards to a howto video, sure, I could make one, but I found a number of them already exist, but perhaps not using exactly the same hardware. I also made this as a sort of joke for no practical purpose... Do you think anyone else would be interested in seeing the howto? What aspects would you be interested in (how to install Linux on the BeagleBone? How to install and configure ZFS? How to manage USB block devices?)

[@zezeandjr4110]

Didn't mean to come across so crass, I saw the setup and was looking forward to details on where you bought the pieces, how you put it together, this & that. Thx

[@SRC267]

Name of track?