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Understanding OpenZFS DRAID – An Interactive Guide(jro.io)
3 points by melp 3y ago|1 comments
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by melp 3y ago
I just added a detailed dRAID overview to my OpenZFS guide. Be sure to scroll down to play with the js app that shows various dRAID layouts and how they get shuffled.
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by melp 4y ago
I'll add some details around that, thanks for the feedback!
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by melp 4y ago
Author here, good call, I'll add that today.
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by melp 9y ago
Good call... I'll prop it up on something soon. This is on the second floor of my house, so it's safe from flooding, but I'd hate to have spilled water kill my stuff.
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by melp 9y ago
Hah, I have no shame m0nkey! They're great videos. So the 9.10 FreeNAS GUI will have bhyve management stuff in it? Or did I misunderstand that?
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by melp 9y ago
Just replied to a similar comment below with: "I have this system sitting next to me in my home office which I share with my wife. Both of us work from home full time and the server is quiet enough that she doesn't complain about
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by melp 9y ago
I have this system sitting next to me in my home office which I share with my wife. Both of us work from home full time and the server is quiet enough that she doesn't complain about it.
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by melp 9y ago
I guess that's the downside. It only syncs the latest version of every file it syncs.
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by melp 9y ago
Because I've never done this before and I wanted a more manageable learning curve. I had very little *nix experience and zero bsd or zfs experience before I started this project. My next server will probably be vanilla bsd, but then ag
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by melp 9y ago
Hah, thanks. Galapagos is an amazing spot for wildlife photography.
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by melp 9y ago
36T to CrashPlan sits on 36GB of RAM at all times... screw that. rclone never uses more than ~2GB to manage my whole 50TB dataset. edit: Also, I'm using a SuperMicro chassis, not a Norco. I've got a section where I go into why I w
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by melp 9y ago
BackBlaze B2 is probably the lowest price S3-like cloud provider and for 50TB (my current dataset size), it would be ~$250/mo: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html Granted I didn't do this
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by melp 9y ago
If you really don't want to go over ethernet (and I'm assuming fiber is out of the question, too), there aren't really any great methods to automate this process. If you don't want to pull drives and put your data at ris
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by melp 9y ago
I'm glad to hear it! I've had a ton of fun working on it, but just know that FreeNAS is a slippery and expensive slope!
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by melp 9y ago
Enterprise Edition, baby! It's an official variant. By the way, if anyone is considering deploying their own LackRack, I would highly recommend reading the installation section in the OP. It's got some quirks that are worth consid
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by melp 9y ago
how the fuck does a metal box fail?
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by melp 9y ago
Nope, never considered low power. I really didn't want a CPU bottleneck when I move to 10Gb network interface. Running a NAS in a VM (at least FreeNAS) is highly discouraged, so I never considered that. I do, however, run several VMs o
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by melp 9y ago
I'm glad you think so. I also found it was extremely difficult to find a thorough explanation of the types of overhead I described, so I wanted to get it all together in one place. Working through it while writing it also helped me und
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by melp 9y ago
(I meant to reply to you several hours ago, but HN wasn't letting me post comments for some reason...) I've got rclone set up to encrypt and upload everything to ACD. There's a section at the bottom of the article that goes i
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by melp 9y ago
It'll saturate a 1Gb link, obviously. I've been eyeing 10Gb configurations for a while, that will be my next upgrade. I'd really like to stick with copper so I can wire the whole house for 10Gb and have some super fast X11 no
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by melp 9y ago
Oh, it's totally overkill, but I don't have any regrets. I have a couple VMs that can sit on a lot of CPU time when they're in active use.
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by melp 9y ago
rclone/crypt to amazon cloud drive (acd)
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by melp 9y ago
I might get that new consumer-grade switch with 10GbE copper, but that's down the road a bit.
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by melp 9y ago
Sits at about 250W, goes up to ~300W when it's running a scrub or something.
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by melp 9y ago
I do a lot of high resolution photography and videography work. I've got about ~15 years of raw images and video files that I could probably go through and delete, but I'd rather keep them around so I can pretend that maybe some d
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by melp 9y ago
I originally posted this on reddit, but I'm happy to see it reposted elsewhere. Let me know if anyone has any questions.