Nice. I'm extra fond of ZFS backed network root filesystem, because it lets you put an OS on ZFS without needing to deal with ZFS support in that OS. (One of these days I want to try OpenBSD with its root on NFS on ZFS, either from Linux or FreeBSD.)

Does anyone have an opinion on iSCSI vs NBD?

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guenthert an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Well, iSCSI is a standard, so chances are better that it's supported in a non-Linux OS, e.g. MS Windows. Years ago I booted a Windows (7, iirc) client that way, but gave up on it (too much hassle and performance limited by the network) when SSDs became cheap.

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Modified3019 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don’t have direct experience, but when I looked into it my takeaway that NBD was unable to reliably deal with network interruptions as well as iscsi.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=4895771&sid=f9b7ac...

https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/issues/93

Whether that’s the case with the latest version, I don’t know, but it’s something you might test if you choose to try it.

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jaypatelani 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]