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Any interest in a dockerised MC?
mwillems:
--- Quote from: mattkhan on August 13, 2015, 09:23:01 am ---drives that remain useable outside of the "raid" setup
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That's a big difference, and a nice one. You can't achieve that with LVM or BTRFS. Just about everything else you mention (different sized drives, parity, etc.) can be done with BTRFS on a native linux distro, but only with fairly current kernels (i.e. I wouldn't try to use parity raid in the BTRFS version currently in Debian stable). But in a year or so you may be able to get all or most of that (other than the webui) from a linux filesystem running baremetal.
I'm currently just using separate drives fully backed up to a second set of drives; the read and write performance is excellent and I have an easy enough time monitoring them with munin. However, the space management/administration experience leaves something to be desired, and requires a little more fuss/forethought than I'd like, but I've been putting off doing something more intense until the next gen filesystems are more mature. Maybe I'll investigate UNRAID in the meanwhile.
mattkhan:
--- Quote from: mwillems on August 13, 2015, 10:29:12 am ---Just about everything else you mention (different sized drives, parity, etc.) can be done with BTRFS on a native linux distro, but only with fairly current kernels (i.e. I wouldn't try to use parity raid in the BTRFS version currently in Debian stable). But in a year or so you may be able to get all or most of that (other than the webui) from a linux filesystem running baremetal.
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I always seem to get the impression that btrfs is "99% done" if you get what I mean, maybe it's 99.9% done now though :)
--- Quote from: mwillems on August 13, 2015, 10:29:12 am ---I'm currently just using separate drives fully backed up to a second set of drives; the read and write performance is excellent and I have an easy enough time monitoring them with munin. However, the space management/administration experience leaves something to be desired, and requires a little more fuss/forethought than I'd like, but I've been putting off doing something more intense until the next gen filesystems are more mature. Maybe I'll investigate UNRAID in the meanwhile.
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The current version of unraid does use a modern linux kernel (4.x) and supports btrfs/xfs for the data drives so it should be easy enough to load up a system and then transfer to something else in future if required.
mwillems:
--- Quote from: mattkhan on August 13, 2015, 10:55:31 am ---I always seem to get the impression that btrfs is "99% done" if you get what I mean, maybe it's 99.9% done now though :)
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I know what you mean, but parity RAID is kind of a special case. Until Linux 3.19 there was general acknowledgement that BTRFS parity RAID was really only about 50% done (i.e. quite experimental within the already experimental FS). Now it's the same 99% done that the rest of BTRFS is ;D
--- Quote ---The current version of unraid does use a modern linux kernel (4.x) and supports btrfs/xfs for the data drives so it should be easy enough to load up a system and then transfer to something else in future if required.
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Good to know. I'll probably never really be happy with a distro in a box though. I love to tweak things and track data too much (even boring stuff like storage and disk throughput). Maybe I'll try it out on my backup box and see how it flies as a pilot.
Sandy B Ridge:
Docker version of mc server would be great. I keep my Unraid server on most of the time because it is such low power. Having it on all the time I could have jremote working all the time rather than just when the media pc is on. I have transferred my mobile devices to use plex because I can have them always on. I run plex server in a docker on the Unraid box.
Of course main pc/tv viewing will preferentially be through mc and madvr, so an always on library server would work really well on the Unraid box for me. I have already transferred all the media files to Unraid.
Happy to test anything if it ever gets off the ground.
mattkhan:
Are you running unraid 6 now?
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