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That depends on your OS. Ubuntu is, frankly, very bad at it -- though few other distributions are very much better. I'd recommend NixOS. ZFS is a proper first-
by Filligree 7y ago
That depends on your OS. Ubuntu is, frankly, very bad at it -- though few other distributions are very much better.
I'd recommend NixOS. ZFS is a proper first-class filesystem there, and you can use it almost however you like.
- xattt 7y agoGreat, thank you. I will look into it.
- tracker1 7y agoThanks... have a used server I'm going to play with in a couple weekends... won't have the final drives for the new shared drive setup for a couple months (moving away from an old nas box) and going to try a few scenarios with an nvme as the boot drive via adapter, and most storage/backup to the RAID array. Was planning on trying both unraid and windows server as host OSes, and maybe even using a NAS distro in a VM managing the individual drives, etc. Would prefer something that supported docker, full vms and a friendly NAS UI, but not sure such a beast exists.
- dflock 7y agoFreeNAS is linux distro with a friendly NAS UI: https://freenas.org/ https://freenas.org/ - but still linux, so you get all the usual linux stuff - docker, full VMs, etc...
- chousuke 7y agoFreeNAS is based on FreeBSD, not the Linux kernel. It's from a completely different lineage of operating systems.
- dflock 7y agoOoops, thanks for the correction!
- tracker1 7y agoAs mentioned in another comment, FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD and they dropped Linux/Docker compatibility, and full VMs are less similar to other platforms. If I did FreeNAS, it would be in a VM with the drives mapped to the VM.
- dflock 7y agoOoops, I thought it was Linux, sorry!