Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 9:42 AM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
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> That is true.  Thing is, I've learned how to manage LVM even with
encrypted data.  I've also learned how to expand storage without losing
data or getting confused about what I'm doing.  To me, using LVM is pretty
easy given the notes I have for the tasks I do most often.
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> It's not that I want to compile things, it's that I want to use things
I'm already really familiar with.  If I bought a Raspberry Pi and built a
NAS with it, I don't care if I compile the software on it or not as long as
it has the software I need or I can install what I need.  From what I've
read, compiling on a Raspberry isn't much fun.  It's very time consuming.
Having a OS, binary one at that, that is Linux based is a big plus.  I can
run LVM, cryptsetup and such in likely every Linux distro out there and get
the same result as on my Gentoo box.  Switching to BSD, using ZFS, means I
have to learn a whole new set of tools and methods.  I had enough fun
learning LVM and I don't think LVM is going to die anytime soon.  It should
be around for the foreseeable future.  As it is, even now, I still don't
get how ZFS works.  I just followed a guide to get it working, sort of.
It's still not encrypted.  Figuring that out is next.  That should be fun.
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Maybe just live with TrueNAS for a month or two and get to know it on a
friendly level first?

I think I'm still not understanding the need for LVM. Help me understand. I
see ZFS on TrueNAS as a combination of mdadm and a file system. I'm not
sure I even have partitions. My ZFS pool is just using the whole drive, but
that was all I wanted. Are you planning on using your drive space for other
things? (Plex server in a jail, or remote real-time storage for instance)
If so maybe LVM would help isolate backups - which I thought was why you
wanted this machine - from a VM of some type running on the same machine -
which I don't think you've suggested.

> My network card is out for delivery.  A few days late but better than
never I guess.  I'll see if the drivers needed for it are available as
modules or not.  I suspect they are tho based on info in this thread.

Good luck. Hope the new card makes your life easier.

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