NewMountain

Can confirm: I am here because of Linus. Couple of questions from this video that I actually came over here to clarify: 1. 9:00 : Due to limitation of Unraid, "we still need to have an array...[to fill with placeholder drives]...this will be fixed a few versions from now. I'm not sure I follow this. To be clear, is the idea, when running in ZFS, you need to have a placeholder drive? If so, does it need to adhere to any space or spec guidelines or can it literally be _any_ drive? The video does a little handwaving over "a couple of months until this is resolved". Should I wait, or is this not really a big deal? 2. 12:25: ZFS is not really designed for NVMe... a. Set arc-cache to meta data only bash: `zfs set primarycache=metadata {{pool_name}}` b. enable auto-trim (just in case as zfs may set this automatically) bash: `zpool set autotrim=on {{pool_name}}` c. disable access time bash: `zfs set atime=off {{pool_name}}` d. set compression on lz4 bash: `zfs set compression=lz4 {{pool_name}}` I lurked this forum, likely a year ago, and my takeaway at the time was _don't use ssd only with unraid and zfs_, so I left a mental note to come back when ssds "were a thing". This video prompted that. With the tweaks above, is zfs on unraid a reasonable thing to do now, or something a few months out like question 1? 3. 15:00 : Pinned a single core and ~258MB transfer (screenshot 15:32). Assumed to be smb. I realize there are a lot of details that are unclear such as how the laptops are connected (wireless vs wired, at what bandwidth), but that transfer seems pretty uninspiring. Anyone want to field a guess as to the issue and if there is an obvious misconfiguration? Overall, super interesting and an all SSD NAS is something that's been on my radar for a while. This video was a good chance to introduce myself and ask a few questions (and maybe help others here with similar questions).