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  • Re: Back on Track / Beta Testing RH

    From Mrnet@VERT to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jan 26 16:35:00 2025
    Re: Re: Back on Track / Beta Testing RH
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to nelgin on Wed Jan 08 2025 11:26 am

    nelgin wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Back in the old days, we'd just create a 1gb file and leave it on the file system. Run out of space? Delete it and revel in your added disk space. Sort of a poor-man's LVM. :)

    That's kind of odd, but I guess it's one way to get some space back.

    Mind you, this was back in the SunOS/early Solaris days before LVM, when adding disk space usually meant adding another disk and splicing it into
    the filesystem somewhere.

    ZFS FTW thesedays IMO. Home Built NAS setup.

    ISCSI JOBO, Mounted on target servers. Expand as needed.
    Full Mirror of the OS in ZFS, can tollerate full disk loss on any of the volumes, including boot drive.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT to Mrnet on Mon Jan 27 08:12:00 2025
    Mrnet wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    ZFS FTW thesedays IMO. Home Built NAS setup.

    ISCSI JOBO, Mounted on target servers. Expand as needed.
    Full Mirror of the OS in ZFS, can tollerate full disk loss on any of
    the volumes, including boot drive.

    Nice. I've heard lots of good things about ZFS, not in a place to use it
    (yet). My servers are all running on raid-nothing with a NAS NFS share
    for data. I've got 2 backups, one is a file copy of the BBS VM, the
    other is a full system backup and VM-level backup (fingers crossed)




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  • From Mrnet@VERT to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jan 29 03:00:00 2025
    Re: Re: Back on Track / Beta Testing RH
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mrnet on Mon Jan 27 2025 08:12 am

    Interesting. Yeah, I'm looking at ways to setup tiers of storage.
    Some things need to be online all the time - for access - others can be turned off to save power and wear and tear on the disks.
    One of the problems with using a single server for the bulk of my storage, is that server has to be on all the time and it's quite loud when it contains all those drives.
    So I'm thinking about building a small fanless as possible, NVME storage server, with a couple large "BULK" drives to use as "Hot" Data, then potentially using scripts - wake on lan - etc, to trigger another bulk storage server to come online and accept a backup dump, then turn off.
    I'm sure there's multiple ways to do something like that, just have to think about it a bit more, & of course collect the funds to buy the toys.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT to Mrnet on Wed Jan 29 06:31:00 2025
    Mrnet wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    problems with using a single server for the bulk of my storage, is that server has to be on all the time and it's quite loud when it contains
    all those drives. So I'm thinking about building a small fanless as possible, NVME storage server

    I like the idea of NVMes for online storage and louder nearline
    storage. There used to be enterprise systems that would groom your
    data, moving infrequently accessed data to slower drives, and
    ultimately to WORM drives for archival access.

    I have 5 2tb drives, and the drive head seeking sounds are driving me
    crazy. I should try to justify replacing them with SSD for... (checks IT
    excuse list) Increased MTBF, lower thermal footprint and decreased
    power consumption.





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