Hello everyone!

 

After my Helios4 had been laying in a cardboard box for a long time after moving houses, I decided it was time to once again set it up as an NAS.

 

I was previously running Open Media Vault (OMV) with 4 disks in xfs and using MergerFS for unionizing three of them at a single mount point and then using Snapraid for the fourth disk.

OMV worked pretty well for me but I go somewhat irritated from time to times because how it decides to thing in it's own way.

 

But now I when I re-installed it (after getting a new PSU) I went with Armbian instead to keep it closer to "standard" linux.

I think I will still go with MerverFS and Snapraid this time also but I also wonder what you guys and gals are using!

 

For example:

 - What filesystem are you using? xfs, btrfs or maybe zfs?

 - Are you running raid, mergerfs or something else?

 - How are making the storage avalible to other hosts? NFS, SSHFS?

 - Are you running some kind of admin UI to manage your Helios?

 

 

@Kribbstar Some facts from my configuration, in general: Nothing fancy here.

 

OS: Linux 5.15.89-mvebu + Armbian 22.11.4 (up-to-date)

NAS: OMV 6.2.0 + omvextrasorg 6.1.1 (up-to-date) + RAID5 (4 * 8TB WD Red)

Filesystems: type=ext4*, 3 fs, one of them LUKS-encrypted

Shared foldes (5) provided bei SMB/CIFS

omv-extras: docker, portainer, yacht

Container: nextcloud (supported by nextclouddb and swag)

Backup: a) SD-card cloning, b) rsync

 

ext4*: I started with ext4 because of no own experience with btrfs, zfs, ... But because the configuration is stable and sufficiently responsive, I stayed with ext4.

 

Any further information you are interested in?

Linux - 5.15.93-mvebu + Armbian 23.02.2 (buster)

Nas : OMV 5.6.26-1

Raid 10 -> Seagate Irownwolf 8tb

Filesystem: ext4

Two Shared folders via SMB

Docker/portainer