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On Sunday, 18 December 2022 15:12:37 GMT Dale wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 4:42 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com |
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> > <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> > <SNIP> |
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> > > My reasoning is simple, I'm already familiar with LVM and how to |
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> > |
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> > manage it. |
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> > <SNIP> |
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> > Take the machine, wipe it and build a NAS from scratch with Gentoo. If |
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> > all you want is an NFS mount that won't be difficult. Add an NFS |
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> > server, export your mount and you're done, right? Managing it over the |
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> > long term will be far more work than TrueNAS but you will be |
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> > comfortable with changing disks and adding network cards which |
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> > is important to you. Life is too short to deal with things you really |
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> > don't enjoy. |
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> > I would not suggest you look at Ubuntu Server because it's NGL. 10 |
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> > minutes to install, 3 minutes to figure out how to add the NFS server. |
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> > However it's a different package manager and truly not as nice as |
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> > emerge/portage so you probably won't like that part of NGL either. I |
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> > truly don't like apt, but it works if I stay in my lane so I've |
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> > learned to do that, the advantage being I've never had to build a |
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> > package from scratch and I've never in 5 or 6 years had an update fail. |
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> > Wipe the machine. You'll be happier. |
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> > Best wishes, |
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> > Mark |
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> Well, I finally got it so I could do a backup. I didn't need a hammer |
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> but the thought crossed my mind. lol Even tho I now have a 1GB network |
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> card, it's still really slow. It shows up as a 1GB connection on both |
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> my Gentoo machine and the NAS machine. This is a example of the speeds |
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> I'm seeing. Just snippets. |
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> 277,193,507 100% 16.18MB/s 0:00:16 |
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> 519,216,571 100% 18.86MB/s 0:00:26 |
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> 738,078,565 100% 23.54MB/s 0:00:29 |
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> As you can see, the files sizes are large enough it should do better. |
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> When I use iftop, it shows it isn't doing anywhere near the speed it |
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> should, maybe 1/4th or so. I'd expect at least double or triple that |
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> speed. In all honesty, I'd think the hard drive would be the limiting |
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> factor. Even on my Gentoo rig I only get about 50 to 60MBs/sec for |
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> encrypted drives. I think the encryption slows that down. When copying |
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> from a plain drive to a plain drive, I get 100MBs/sec or so. |
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> I can't figure out why it is so slow tho. The NAS rig is a 4 core CPU |
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> and 8GBs of memory. It should have enough horsepower under the hood. |
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> Maybe it is something I'm not aware of. It is a older rig so maybe it |
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> isn't SATA's fastest version, maybe even the original or something. I |
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> can't find anything in lspci or dmesg so not real sure where to look on |
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> BSD. |
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> Anyway, it's progress for now at least. ;-) At this rate, it'll be |
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> done in about a week, maybe. o_O |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Has it auto-negotiated a full-duplex connection at 1Gbps? Run ifconfig and |
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check the output, it should say something like: |
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media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>) |
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If not, then you may need to set this up manually. |