Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 03:19:08AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > >>> Something to look into before going the traditional raid/nfs route: >>> moosefs or lizardfs. I am using arm based odroid HC2's and over the >>> softraid based nfs I was using there are considerable power savings >>> (especially if you take into the account redundancy) as it takes a >>> number of these low power arm systems to match the power requirements of >>> an older desktop), better data protection (actual, not theoretical for >>> 2x raid 4 disk 10's replaced by a single 5x hc2's using the same disks >>> with mfs :) and the ease of mounting it into the filesystem. Downside >>> is needing a fast network for best performance but an NFS will need that >>> anyway for similar reasons. >>> >>> BillK >> >> I was reading somewhere about FreeNAS OS that is commonly used on a NAS >> and it uses ZFS. It sounded a lot like a LVM or BTRFS, (sp?), type file >> system. > ZFS combines LVM/RAID and the filesystem into one software. So you don't > need to set up two separate layers (RAID and filesystem).
Hmmm. I'm not planing to use RAID so that could change things. I may use some other OS/software. I'm not real quick to use Gentoo since it likely won't be updated very often. I may research and see what else is easy to install, will do what I want software wise and be OK with not being updated very often. I read once where a guy built a file server/NAS and stuck it in a closet. He used it all the time but just never thought to go to the closet and do anything to it. I think he was moving and was cleaning out the closet and realized how long it had been sitting there untouched. He said it was dusty and had a uptime of over 5 years without a single update either. I may not be that bad but going a year or so is certainly likely. Gentoo will not be happy with that. Just have to wait and see I guess. Dale :-) :-)
