I like the snapshot, built-in mirroring, and other features of ZFS & BTRFS. By preference, I'd use ZFS, it's more mature, and has more features than BTRFS. But, either one would give me alternate boot environments, so OS upgrades can be less painful. Been using ZFS on Linux for 4.5 years, and I like it. (Used BTRFS before then, and alternate boot partitions before BTRFS.)

Anyway, with a dedicated "/boot" partition, ZFS on Linux allows all the features. Including native ZFS encryption, (pool wide or dataset / zVol).

Has anyone here used ZFS or BTRFS on ARM64?


I guess it's time to un-pack my old media server, (a slower, low power quad core AMD64), and practice / test the latest OpenZFS features like pool or dataset encryption. (After all, PBP is a laptop, made for travel...)

Hey, 
This is my first post. I've been lurking for months but I finally signed up. Let me say I love how you guys run your business, really hacker friendly, reasonably priced and feature rich products, the pinebook pro is a model example and I couldn't find anything comparable for sale here in Canada unless I build my own rasp pi 4 b laptop or something.

Would it be possible to publish ongoing pre-order and fullfilled sales totals, at least for the pinebook pro but also possibly for all the pine products? I think it would be cool for the user community to see how many 'others' there are out there.

Obviously you'd have to caveat it with "this is no indication of personal order progress" or something like that, because I realize any time you do something nice "like the pre-july 1st discount" there are always those that complain. This would just be numbers to see how the community for each product is growing. Doesn't even have to be live or that accurate, maybe updated periodically by sales department would be sufficient.

I apologize if this question was answered elsewhere. I searched quite a bit and didn't find anything other than the initial 2 pre order batch sizes, which were filled within 2 minutes of the pre-order opening.

Thanks again, even if you can't provide this feature.

Hello,

I would like to use this SATA expansion card
https://www.delock.de/produkte/G_89384/m...anguage=en
but before I want to know that the rockpro64 supports the JMicron chipset. I'm not a Linux expert, therefore I appreciate any advise / suggestion where can I find the related information.

Thank you.

It looks like the M.2 adaptor has a number of holes to both fix the adaptor in place and to hold the M.2 in the adaptor. Are the required standoffs/pillars
included with the adaptor, and if not, what sizes do we need?

I'm very happy that they are at least producing wayland drivers however there aren't any instructions for installing the driversdon't know what applications I'm supposed to use for installation, or if I simple just put the files in the lib directory and then create system links.  I've gone thought the documentation folder as well and found nothing.  I could use some even if it just the applications that I'm supposed to use to build the driver for dpkg installation?

On a second note will there be OpenCL drivers built for the Pine H64 Model B as well in Linux for xll desktop hardware acceleration?

I know the device uses usb c to a cables, that should work shouldn't it?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/747...=user_menu

Obviously no one has it yet so we wont know for a while. Is there a chance this software might work? Looks like they either support Android or Ubuntu OS. 

https://shadow.tech/usen/applications

Is this nvme adapter, that can be ordered with the PBP, a special adapter for the PBP, or can I just order any nvme adapter?

What would you do with the nvme interface. I am curious what you would do with it, besides from installing an SSD...

Waiting to get my coupon...

Hello

I would like to know why is this NVMe interface is only for pinebook pro ?  (https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinebo...ce-adapter)
I know this laptop is using a modified rockpro64 board, but what differences do they have ?

thank you

At the checkout page, my $199 laptop came to $255.99. The small print said "Note : Import duty tax is not included in Shipping cost." I never ordered anything from a foreign country. Will there be any additional charges and how are they billed?

My shipping address is my company address, e.g. the company mailman will receive it and hand it over to me. Will this cause any issues with having import duty payed?