dirkinthedark

Hello, I'm looking to upgrade my current setup. I would really like a virtual gpu to free up my pci slots and save power. Need transcoding in a docker and passthrough vm (Linux or Windows 10 or 11 (Jellyfin)) for home theatre. Is the sriov working yet? Should I wait? Is there a more stable AMD solution? Thank you

Hello, I am finally able to host my best friend celebration of life. I was looking for app suggestions to allow people to write messages or any other suggestions. So far Im going to use spotify for building a song collection people want to share, and ftp to upload photos they want to share. Thank you, Dirk

Good luck its tricky

WISE 🤔

Array restarted, cant wait for seemless zfs integration.

Yep lost it all, man, ugghhh why didn't I backup before I did this.

Went to put more hard drives in my computer. Sat the computer on its back, didn't realize my flash drive was still in. Cracked in half. No worries I had my server installed, last backup a week ago, before I did all my setup. LOL

Ive had some issues as well. I would try dumping your video card bios into a file then using that.

Looks like I've broken almost everything farting around. I'm tired and frustrated ha. Can't even get my samba sharing to work now with symbolic links or in the /boot/config/smb-extra.conf file. Good Grief.

Looks like what I'll do is just put the unraid cache stuff on my ssd zpool and then use the snapshot commands as well as backup to send it over to my storage zpool.

You are correct. I was hoping to utilize the power of the mover is why. No worries if it can't be done, jist thought it would be cool.

Hello, Thanks @steini84for all your work here. I jist set up my first unraid server and have been chewing through a ton of info. Im on page 17 of this thread so far. I have 2 dummy usb sticks in for array and cache. Is there a way to point my cache to my /zfs/cache pool and my array to /zfs/data pool My data pool is spinners My cache pool is ssd's Ive remade all my shares as their respected datasets in the pools. Im sure that info is in here somewhere Im just cross eyed trying to find it right now. So far Ive only found that I choose one or the other and then use samba shares to share it properly. Thank you.

I might look at using a ZFS array with the SSDs. I believe the issue is not putting the SSD into the array but using them for the parity check. So you can put them in an array without parity (wouldn't recommend) or I think you can (what I'm going to try this week) is making a ZFS pool, setting your array onto a usb device and then using symlinks on the USB folders into the ZFS array. Don't know if it will work like that but I think it will.

Ok perfect, so I will look for another one myself. Tricky, tricky hehe.

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I dont understand, the controller you listed is the asmedia1062 which should be good

Yikes let me know, I just ordered the same card.

Ok, so from what I can see the most efficient way to do this would be 2 usb drives.| One hosting the normal array with sym links to the zpool on the spinning disk array (ZFS) One hosting the cache array with sym links to the zpool on the SSD disk array (ZFS) That way all the cool features of unraid still work as normal (mover, cache, etc)

I have no idea what any of that stuff in the guide is but I have a feeling I need to know it. Thank you, I'm sure I will be back here soon.

Ok, Best solution seems to be make a SSD ZFS Pool and a Spinning ZFS Pool The SSD ZFS pool will host everything and then I will move files in a cron job once a day / week over into the spinning pool. I will also spin down the pool (and hopefully not quarry it). (This is a heated topic as far as I can tell power vs drive wear, however if you can go a week without spin up it will be good) So in short 2 pools, custom mover script. To find files older than x days the following line is used: Script: wake up drives? find /sourcedirectory -maxdepth 1 -atime +(time in days) -type f -exec mv "{}" /destination/directory/ \; rsync the vm's and dockers? spin down drives More research is required.

Turns out zfs cache is useless, will have to think about this some more.

How is this working for you?

I was going to use my SSD's in the array to enable the cache as I didn't know how that would work with ZFS. However I've found this post here So I will probably just enable my 1 TB SSD's as a ZFS cache and add the 3x0.5 TB SSD's as another ZFS Pool. Let me know your thoughts, Thank you

I can fit another sata card in my PC as well for those floating 1.5 tb drives. Further I have access to another 6+ 500gb ssd if I so choose. Right now I only have about 2gb of data.