On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 4:42 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > > My reasoning is simple, I'm already familiar with LVM and how to manage it. <SNIP>
Take the machine, wipe it and build a NAS from scratch with Gentoo. If all you want is an NFS mount that won't be difficult. Add an NFS server, export your mount and you're done, right? Managing it over the long term will be far more work than TrueNAS but you will be comfortable with changing disks and adding network cards which is important to you. Life is too short to deal with things you really don't enjoy. I would not suggest you look at Ubuntu Server because it's NGL. 10 minutes to install, 3 minutes to figure out how to add the NFS server. However it's a different package manager and truly not as nice as emerge/portage so you probably won't like that part of NGL either. I truly don't like apt, but it works if I stay in my lane so I've learned to do that, the advantage being I've never had to build a package from scratch and I've never in 5 or 6 years had an update fail. Wipe the machine. You'll be happier. Best wishes, Mark
