Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 4:42 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com > <mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > <SNIP> > > > > My reasoning is simple, I'm already familiar with LVM and how to > manage it. > <SNIP> > > Take the machine, wipe it and build a NAS from scratch with Gentoo. If > all you want is an NFS mount that won't be difficult. Add an NFS > server, export your mount and you're done, right? Managing it over the > long term will be far more work than TrueNAS but you will be > comfortable with changing disks and adding network cards which > is important to you. Life is too short to deal with things you really > don't enjoy. > > I would not suggest you look at Ubuntu Server because it's NGL. 10 > minutes to install, 3 minutes to figure out how to add the NFS server. > However it's a different package manager and truly not as nice as > emerge/portage so you probably won't like that part of NGL either. I > truly don't like apt, but it works if I stay in my lane so I've > learned to do that, the advantage being I've never had to build a > package from scratch and I've never in 5 or 6 years had an update fail. > > Wipe the machine. You'll be happier. > > Best wishes, > Mark
Well, I finally got it so I could do a backup. I didn't need a hammer but the thought crossed my mind. lol Even tho I now have a 1GB network card, it's still really slow. It shows up as a 1GB connection on both my Gentoo machine and the NAS machine. This is a example of the speeds I'm seeing. Just snippets. 277,193,507 100% 16.18MB/s 0:00:16 519,216,571 100% 18.86MB/s 0:00:26 738,078,565 100% 23.54MB/s 0:00:29 As you can see, the files sizes are large enough it should do better. When I use iftop, it shows it isn't doing anywhere near the speed it should, maybe 1/4th or so. I'd expect at least double or triple that speed. In all honesty, I'd think the hard drive would be the limiting factor. Even on my Gentoo rig I only get about 50 to 60MBs/sec for encrypted drives. I think the encryption slows that down. When copying from a plain drive to a plain drive, I get 100MBs/sec or so. I can't figure out why it is so slow tho. The NAS rig is a 4 core CPU and 8GBs of memory. It should have enough horsepower under the hood. Maybe it is something I'm not aware of. It is a older rig so maybe it isn't SATA's fastest version, maybe even the original or something. I can't find anything in lspci or dmesg so not real sure where to look on BSD. Anyway, it's progress for now at least. ;-) At this rate, it'll be done in about a week, maybe. o_O Dale :-) :-)
