Re: OpenBSD as a NAS

2020-12-13 Thread jeanfrancois
Hello, For your use case make sure from reading softraid it will fit your needs in the first place, perform some tests to make sure softraid meets what you need. Otherwise have a look at hardware raids which OpenBSD supports. As far as NAS for local, yes OpenBSD's perfect for the job, I've

Re: OpenBSD as a NAS

2020-12-05 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 12:36:04PM +, Roderick wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Dec 2020, Georg Bege wrote: > > > keep in mind that the ZFS supported versions may be quite different. > > > > The "one ZFS for many OS" isn't really working in reality, > > > > you may not be able to import your pool into

Re: OpenBSD as a NAS

2020-12-05 Thread Roderick
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020, Georg Bege wrote: keep in mind that the ZFS supported versions may be quite different. The "one ZFS for many OS" isn't really working in reality, you may not be able to import your pool into different OS than the one you've created it with. Indeed there is this risk. I

Re: OpenBSD as a NAS

2020-12-04 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020, Predrag Punosevac wrote: OpenBSD is super simple and most reliable OS I have personally dealt with but the storage OS, it is not. Nevertheless some people are using in that capacity and to paraphrase Nick's point if OpenBSD is your goto OS, there is nothing wrong in storing

Re: OpenBSD as a NAS

2020-12-04 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020, Predrag Punosevac wrote: FreeBSD, ZFS wins hands down. That being said I neither have a need nor a hardware good enough to use ZFS at home. I am testing a 500GB ZFS mirror on an intel D945GCLF atom board with 2 GB Ram. I boot FreeBSD as diskless. It seems to work fine. R

Re: OpenBSD as a NAS

2020-12-03 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Ashton Fagg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently in the process of provisioning a new NAS for home. It's > replacing an older Synology unit that ticks me off in so many ways. > > I am looking to hear other's experiences with using OpenBSD as a NAS - > specifically in terms of reliability, and for

Re: OpenBSD as a NAS

2020-12-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-12-02 18:19, Ashton Fagg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently in the process of provisioning a new NAS for home. It's > replacing an older Synology unit that ticks me off in so many ways. > > I am looking to hear other's experiences with using OpenBSD as a NAS - > specifically in terms of r

Re: OpenBSD as a NAS

2020-12-03 Thread Ashton Fagg
Hi Ken, Thanks for your mail. Kenneth Gober writes: > I believe softraid is reliable enough, but I don't use it so I can't > say so from personal experience. I do use Samba and NFS though and > can report that those work acceptably well. Reading a large file via > Samba over a gigabit link ru

Re: OpenBSD as a NAS

2020-12-03 Thread Kenneth Gober
On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 6:19 PM Ashton Fagg wrote: > a) Is softraid reliable enough to support my use-case? Does anyone have > anecdotes to encourage/discourage use of softraid for this application? > I believe softraid is reliable enough, but I don't use it so I can't say so from personal experi