Looking for suggestions on media storage.
by jmgibson1981 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5DA08)
I've been using MergerFS with Snapraid for some time. It's 99% media storage. Dvd rips + mp3s with the occasional mp[34]. It's worked well enough. Here is my current layout.
Code:NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 931.5G 0 part
main-debian 254:0 0 300G 0 lvm /
main-swap 254:1 0 1.9G 0 lvm [SWAP]
main-root 254:2 0 250G 0 lvm
sdb 8:16 0 465.8G 0 disk
sdb1 8:17 0 465.8G 0 part /snapraid/data/data4
sdc 8:32 0 698.7G 0 disk
sdc1 8:33 0 698.7G 0 part /snapraid/data/data2
sdd 8:48 0 1.8T 0 disk
sdd1 8:49 0 1.8T 0 part /snapraid/data/data1
sde 8:64 0 1.8T 0 disk
sde1 8:65 0 1.8T 0 part
sdf 8:80 0 232.9G 0 disk
sdf1 8:81 0 232.9G 0 part /snapraid/data/data3
sdg 8:96 0 1.8T 0 disk
sdg1 8:97 0 1.8T 0 part
sdh 8:112 0 1.8T 0 disk
sdh1 8:113 0 1.8T 0 partThe 2 unmounted 2tb (1.8) are my snapraid parity drives. They are usb. main-root is my old ubuntu installation. switched to debian a week ago or so.
The other day I did my first disk replacement and I went ahead and did a rebuild from parity. It took 20+ hours for a 2tb disk. I could probably speed that up by going with internal drives for my parity but it got me to thinking. Do I really need snapraid? For that matter while I have a total of 3.2 tb in my pool with 2.3 used is this just overcomplicated. Would I be better off just doing a raid 1 with hot spare of 4tb drives? Or even zfs mirrored vdev?
I'm trying to look for ways to simplify really and that rebuild time was a long time. Looking for opinions the best course?
Code:NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 931.5G 0 part
main-debian 254:0 0 300G 0 lvm /
main-swap 254:1 0 1.9G 0 lvm [SWAP]
main-root 254:2 0 250G 0 lvm
sdb 8:16 0 465.8G 0 disk
sdb1 8:17 0 465.8G 0 part /snapraid/data/data4
sdc 8:32 0 698.7G 0 disk
sdc1 8:33 0 698.7G 0 part /snapraid/data/data2
sdd 8:48 0 1.8T 0 disk
sdd1 8:49 0 1.8T 0 part /snapraid/data/data1
sde 8:64 0 1.8T 0 disk
sde1 8:65 0 1.8T 0 part
sdf 8:80 0 232.9G 0 disk
sdf1 8:81 0 232.9G 0 part /snapraid/data/data3
sdg 8:96 0 1.8T 0 disk
sdg1 8:97 0 1.8T 0 part
sdh 8:112 0 1.8T 0 disk
sdh1 8:113 0 1.8T 0 partThe 2 unmounted 2tb (1.8) are my snapraid parity drives. They are usb. main-root is my old ubuntu installation. switched to debian a week ago or so.
The other day I did my first disk replacement and I went ahead and did a rebuild from parity. It took 20+ hours for a 2tb disk. I could probably speed that up by going with internal drives for my parity but it got me to thinking. Do I really need snapraid? For that matter while I have a total of 3.2 tb in my pool with 2.3 used is this just overcomplicated. Would I be better off just doing a raid 1 with hot spare of 4tb drives? Or even zfs mirrored vdev?
I'm trying to look for ways to simplify really and that rebuild time was a long time. Looking for opinions the best course?