Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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

:-)  :-)