Raspberry Pi 4

[Kport]

Hey guys. Im planing to install freenas on a Rasberry pi 4. Will that work?

 

[matuss]

Hey guys. Im planing to install freenas on a Rasberry pi 4. Will that work?

No.

Raspberry CPU architecture is not supported (Rpi has arm, but x86 is required).
Other than that it does not have enough RAM and your drives would have to be connected via USB.

 

[Kport]

Is there any option to Freenas that would work?

 

[packinpennies]

If all you want to do is file sharing, just use the default OS Raspbian and set up a share on the network.

Assuming you want to do a Windows SMB share, here's an article from the MagPi on how to do that:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/samba-file-server/

 

[packinpennies]

Keep in mind that you won't have any of the feature set of FreeNAS with this approach with regards to redundancy, data integrity, availability, etc. The RPi can do many things but at the end of the day it is still a $35 computer.

 

[HoneyBadger]

Is there any option to Freenas that would work?

You might be able to compile ZFSonLinux on Raspbian for ARM. You still won't have ECC or SATA ports though.

This is a case of "hardware is not fit for purpose."

 

[Kport]

something else...
i tried to install Free nas on a old dell pc. it booted from the installation media but when i restarted the system and removed the installation media it wouldn't boot from the boot device.
it has a intel core 2 duo.

 

[pro lamer]

You might be able to compile ZFSonLinux on Raspbian for ARM. You still won't have ECC

Some SBCs come already with ARMv8 which is/can be 64 bit. That makes me feel a bit optimistic for future of ZFS there. Future.

IIRC still no ECC and only some SATA to USB controller...

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[pro lamer]

i tried to install Free nas on a old dell pc. it booted from the installation media but when i restarted the system and removed the installation media it wouldn't boot from the boot device.
it has a intel core 2 duo.

It might be worth a separate thread so you may attract people...

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