Heya - I had an extra m.2 slot on my mb, so I added a small 128 just to use for the boot drive. I ran the onboard and everything went fine, I boot and whatnot.

Wasn't really happen about it, beecause I avoided internal boot as it uses TPM to tie it to my machine, which I do not approve of. I only saw that when I was rebuilding the USB boot and the website told me my license was ALREADY tied to my TPM...Without asking me or me ok'ing that change. So just throwing that out there, that was friggin annoying and pretty presumptious.

So ik I did the intetnal..And now I see that it's using zfs. Don't remember getting that question in the onboard. Also noticed in another tunable to dedicate memory to zarc, but no option to disable that. Huh.

So let me be clear. I do not want use ZFS. I do not want zarc taking up 2gb of ram. And most of all, i'm getting pretty teed off that these changes are happening without consent.

Is there a way to do the internal boot without zfs? It's an absolute deal breaker.

I don't wish to get into the debate about the usefulness of zfs. I don't want to be involved in discussion of a tainted kernel. What I do what is to know that I can undo that, and that decisions like what FS or anything else are not made FOR me. If I wanted a computer to make decisions for me I'd just install literally anything from MS.

I have to say, slightly more generally, I am very disappointed here with the direction. I started with unraid so I was in control Slowly things keep getting tied back to corp. The machine checks in for licenses or whatever... things are tied to the damn website in ways they never were before. Very concerning. I came for the array and to get away from some corp snot somewhere making decisions for me that they they enforce. And this keeps moving in that direction it seems...

So how do I kill zfs?

2 hours ago, enesha said:

I avoided internal boot as it uses TPM to tie it to my machine,

FYI Internal boot and TPM licensing are two completely separate entities. You can use internal boot and keep the USB as the license

2 hours ago, enesha said:

So ik I did the intetnal..And now I see that it's using zfs. Don't remember getting that question in the onboard. Also noticed in another tunable to dedicate memory to zarc, but no option to disable that. Huh.

So let me be clear. I do not want use ZFS. I do not want zarc taking up 2gb of ram. And most of all, i'm getting pretty teed off that these changes are happening without consent.

You don't have a choice, zfs is required as the boot partition, and your assumptions about ARC are misplaced. Unraid will not use up 2GB of RAM for ARC on a boot pool which almost never has any read activity going on. furthermore it's dynamic so unraid will evict any ARC memory use if the rest of the system needs it.

ARC is read caching for files frequently read, the boot pool never has any reads unless you are editing config files. you will never see ARC memory use.

Internal boot is an option, booting off the USB is still valid.

Edited May 27May 27 by MowMdown