I run arch and zfs on my laptop. I haven't had any issues really.. assuming your not trying to saturate a few gbit sustained, I imagine the performance won't come into play.
If you absolutely require encryption on disk as well, I would go with FreeBSD; Little bit more bare bones when compared with freenas.
Weird subject, I know. But this is only for personal residential use. I've been running Arch on a system with a number of disks in raid for all my shared storage needs. This system also doubles as a router / firewall with Wifi, and other little things such as pxe booting. We'll recently I've been wanting to use ZFS with it more and more. So I figured I'd get opinions. Arch does have packages for ZFS, which would provide most features, just not encryption. So would I be better to use pfSense or the like off a USB and add what I need for ZFS, nfs, etc to it, or to just use FreeBSD? or is there some other suggestions.
Thanks,
Paul
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