Dain Bentley <dain.bent...@gmail.com> wrote: > I???ve used OmniOS as well and found it stable and efficient. > > I ran a RAIDZ1 and used rclone to back up and scripted it. It has a > ???back-dir switch which will move files to another folder you can specify > before it overwrites the file. > > It was stable and never crashed. If you???re trying to do other things like > stream media it won???t be the best option. > > I don???t think softraid supports RAID5 > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 4:35???PM Lloyd <ng2...@proton.me> wrote: > > > Take a look at OmniOS for NAS use. Very underrated IMHO. ZFS, integrated > > NFS and SMB server. Based on Illumos code so uses Solaris conventions. Only > > catch is the hardware support isn't great. > > > > Piotr K. Isajew wrote: > > > > > I want to build a NAS for my home network of OpenBSD > > > machines. I have a 4x8TB HDD machine to use for this > > > purpose. Primary role of this machine would be a dump and > > > pg_dump destination, but also a backup storage for some essential > > > files that are not part of regular backups (i.e. photos / music > > > archive) accessible as NFS export. > > > > > > I'd like to avoid using FreeBSD, but ZFS has some tempting > > > features like data corruption detection and correction and I > > > don't want to put a file to archive just to discover that it's > > > unreadable five years later. Do you use OpenBSD for your home > > > NAS? If yes, do you just rely on softraid to protect against data > > > loss or do you supplement it with something? > > > >
I use an OpenBSD bioctl RAID 5 for my non-hier (/srv) archive and project directories and share them using NFS. It's backed up using pax. I tried FreeBSD ZFS in the same role for a while. It worked well enough, but added another OS to understand and update. The ZFS user interface was kind of a turnoff. The main thing I miss from ZFS is snapshots, but the pace of updates on my partitions don't cause pax to chase file updates during the backups. If I had a more demanding use case, I'd be using ZFS.
