Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server

Re:Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server by Joel_Mckay on Sunday May 29, 2022 @11:46AM (#31550039)

The cephfs per-machine redundancy mode is usually the preferred configuration. i.e. usually avoids cramming everything into a single point of failure, buying specialty SAS cards, and poking at live raid arrays to do maintenance.

Seen too many people's TrueNAS/FreeNAS installs glitch up over the years to trust the zfs community edition as a sane production choice. ZFS certainly has improved, but Oracle is not generally known for their goodwill toward the opensource community. ;-)

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Re:Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server by magicalhippo on Sunday May 29, 2022 @12:24PM (#31550354)

I've never run TrueNAS/FreeNAS in proper production, but I have run it at home for over a decade and never lost data, despite generally running on old hardware, multiple drive failures, motherboards dying and power outages/lightning strikes.

Overall been very little fuzz for my home NAS system.

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Re:Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server by zamalek on Sunday May 29, 2022 @01:07PM (#31550723)

> Oracle

BTRFS seems to be maturing nicely, hopefully we can start using it for these types of workloads in the next few years.

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Re:Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server by Joel_Mckay on Sunday May 29, 2022 @02:01PM (#31551222)

BTRFS? you have to be joking... zfs despite its history, it has rarely achieved that level of silliness.

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