choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-20 Thread Miles Keaton
Got a fileserver with a few terabytes of important personal media, like all old home movies, baby photos, etc. Files that I want my family to have access to when I die. Really it's more of a file archive. A backup. Just rsync + ssh. Serving it isn't the point. Just preserving it forever. (It

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-20 Thread Solène
Le 2016-07-20 13:52, Miles Keaton a écrit : Got a fileserver with a few terabytes of important personal media, like all old home movies, baby photos, etc. Files that I want my family to have access to when I die. Really it's more of a file archive. A backup. Just rsync + ssh. Serving it i

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-20 Thread Francois Pussault
x27;t use any versionning over that... (svn neither git) But size is lower by far than your's ... about 375Go on a 500Gb physical media. > > From: Miles Keaton > Sent: Wed Jul 20 13:52:04 CEST 2016 > To: > Subject: choosing OpenBSD

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-20 Thread Kamil Cholewiński
On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Miles Keaton wrote: > So I figure if I use OpenBSD + softraid RAID 5 (across 4 disks) and then > write my own little shell script to track the MD5 (find . -type f -exec md5 > {} \;) whenever I make changes, that should be enough to see if a file has > been changed due to disk

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-20 Thread Theodoros
+1, zfs and hammer are great filesystems for such a use. Looking forward to RAID10 support on softraid (!). On 20 July 2016 at 15:08, Kamil Cholewiński wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Miles Keaton wrote: >> So I figure if I use OpenBSD + softraid RAID 5 (across 4 disks) and then >> write my own

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-20 Thread Kamil Cholewiński
On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Theodoros wrote: > +1, zfs and hammer are great filesystems for such a use. > > Looking forward to RAID10 support on softraid (!). Been running "manually stacked" RAID10 with 6 drives, on a low-traffic production system, for half a year. System boots off the first RAID1 array

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-20 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2016-07-20, Miles Keaton wrote: > So I figure if I use OpenBSD + softraid RAID 5 (across 4 disks) and then > write my own little shell script to track the MD5 (find . -type f -exec md5 > {} \;) Note that mtree(8) can checksum files. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber n

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-20 Thread Scott Bonds
Take a look at par2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive On 07/20, Miles Keaton wrote: Got a fileserver with a few terabytes of important personal media, like all old home movies, baby photos, etc. Files that I want my family to have access to when I die. Really it's more of a file archive.

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-20 Thread Bryan C. Everly
Interesting. Seems to be in our ports tree as well. Now I know what I'm doing this evening. :) On Jul 20, 2016 9:29 AM, "Scott Bonds" wrote: > Take a look at par2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive > > On 07/20, Miles Keaton wrote: > >> Got a fileserver with a few terabytes of important per

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-20 Thread Karel Gardas
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Kamil Cholewiński wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Miles Keaton wrote: >> So I figure if I use OpenBSD + softraid RAID 5 (across 4 disks) and then >> write my own little shell script to track the MD5 (find . -type f -exec md5 >> {} \;) whenever I make changes, that s

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-20 Thread Kenneth Gober
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Miles Keaton wrote: > Got a fileserver with a few terabytes of important personal media, like all > old home movies, baby photos, etc. Files that I want my family to have > access to when I die. > > Really it's more of a file archive. A backup. Just rsync + ssh.

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-20 Thread Tinker
On 2016-07-20 21:48, Karel Gardas wrote: ... Yes, similar functionality is in RAID1C patch I posted on tech@ in the past. Life is too intense now so I barely work on this to update it following Joel Sing requirements. Anyway, someday I hope to push it again to tech@ +1 for RAID1C!

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-21 Thread Chris Bennett
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 02:00:33PM +0200, Solène wrote: > Also, make backup. Raid5 will prevent data loss when a disk fail, but if 2 > disks fails or if the filesystem get corrupted, you will lose your data. > When you have multiple terabyte of data, if you use multiple disks that have > been made

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-21 Thread Boris Goldberg
Hello Miles, I did research the matter about 18 month (or maybe 2 years) ago for the business, even asked the list. Decided in favor of FreeNAS (based on FreeBSD+ZFS if someone doesn't know). Can't tell how it went because the project died for reasons unrelated to the storage. If you decide to

Re: choosing OpenBSD for fileserver instead of FreeBSD + ZFS

2016-07-21 Thread Liviu Daia
On 20 July 2016, Miles Keaton wrote: > Got a fileserver with a few terabytes of important personal media, > like all old home movies, baby photos, etc. Files that I want my > family to have access to when I die. > > Really it's more of a file archive. A backup. Just rsync + ssh. > Serving it is