My question is essentially who's doing it and how.  Burstcoin is a cryptocurrency which uses hdd space rather than CPU/GPU/ASIC horsepower to "mine" coins.  If you've not heard of it you can read more here.  In my array I have 2 or 3 drives which at present have 0% usage which I'd like to use to plot for Burstcoin mining. 

 

At first I tried to just mine similar to the way I had been (several 8TB drives connected via USB to a laptop) by creating a windows VM and then trying to create vdisks that resided on each physical drive which I'd map to a drive letter in my VM and plot.  I had a few issues doing it this way however as a. Unraid didn't seem to like single files which grew larger than a single 8TB disk, and b. the plotfile size seemed to "grow" as I plotted it eventually exceeding the size of the vdisk and causing errors.

 

I then went searching for folks who'd Burstcoin mined on space on their unraid servers and found a couple references to dockers built specific for unraid.  In this case a plotter docker and a miner docker.  My Issue here is that the plotter docker uses mdcct which is an unoptimized plotter vs something newer like cg_obup.  I spun up a Debian VM and installed cg_obup, but now I'm back to trying to figure out how to best present a raw disk to my VM.

 

What I'm looking for is anyone who's trying to or has accomplished the same thing I am.  Whether you've figured out plotting or mining from a VM, any help or even another head to bounce ideas off of would be appreciated, TY!

Although I have no idea on the mining it is worth pointing out that unRAID will never allow a vdisk to be bigger than the physical disk on which it resides.   With unRAID each physical disk is a discrete file system and an individual file always has to reside on a single disk, which is why no file can be bigger than the physical disk.

Damn that sucks as it would decrease my electrical bill that has gone up since my install of my dell R710. Is there a way in burst to create more than one file for each disk? Thanks.