Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 4:42 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com
> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> >
> > My reasoning is simple, I'm already familiar with LVM and how to
> manage it.  
> <SNIP>
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> 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

:-)  :-)