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    I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.

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      scotth @matteo nunziati
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      @matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

      @scotth compression?! What compression?!

      Sorry. I saw lz4 compression on the volumes in FreeNAS. Thought it was kinda everywhere.
      I'll pay attention.

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        matteo nunziati @scotth
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        @scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

        @matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

        @scotth compression?! What compression?!

        Sorry. I saw lz4 compression on the volumes in FreeNAS. Thought it was kinda everywhere.
        I'll pay attention.

        AFAIK transparent compression (at fs level) is available in ntfs, zfs, btrfs only

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          scottalanmiller @matteo nunziati
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          @matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

          @scottalanmiller honestly I would not go with btrfs regardless of facebook...

          Not aware of any issues with it. Not my first choice, but along the same reasons why I rarely use ZFS - just not the right tool for the average job. I don't have any BtrFS concerns, though.

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            scottalanmiller @scotth
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            @scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

            @matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
            After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

            IF you wanted dedupe, but you rarely do. So not really a concern. Just don't turn it on.

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              scottalanmiller @matteo nunziati
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              @matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

              @scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

              @matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
              After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

              Generally go XFS but even ext4 is good. ZFS requires something like 1gb per raw tb of storage but mostrly for raid/compression. It raises up to 5gb per tb if you want dedup.
              So 8gb=8tb of raw (pre raid) storage.
              ZFS is nice byt you usually can go w/out its features in smb

              The memory is for dedupe. It needs very little for compression and RAID. Those use CPU, but not RAM (much).

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                scottalanmiller @scotth
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                @scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                @matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                @scotth compression?! What compression?!

                Sorry. I saw lz4 compression on the volumes in FreeNAS. Thought it was kinda everywhere.
                I'll pay attention.

                That's a ZFS level feature. Anything with ZFS will offer that feature. So Linux can, if you use ZFS.

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                  scottalanmiller @matteo nunziati
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                  @matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                  @scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                  @matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                  @scotth compression?! What compression?!

                  Sorry. I saw lz4 compression on the volumes in FreeNAS. Thought it was kinda everywhere.
                  I'll pay attention.

                  AFAIK transparent compression (at fs level) is available in ntfs, zfs, btrfs only

                  And ReFS "coming soon".

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                    matteo nunziati @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                    @matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                    @scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                    @matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
                    After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

                    Generally go XFS but even ext4 is good. ZFS requires something like 1gb per raw tb of storage but mostrly for raid/compression. It raises up to 5gb per tb if you want dedup.
                    So 8gb=8tb of raw (pre raid) storage.
                    ZFS is nice byt you usually can go w/out its features in smb

                    The memory is for dedupe. It needs very little for compression and RAID. Those use CPU, but not RAM (much).

                    Have to dig a bit: I found these numbers months ago in some freebsd zfs how-to

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                      matteo nunziati @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                      @matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                      @scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                      @matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
                      After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

                      Generally go XFS but even ext4 is good. ZFS requires something like 1gb per raw tb of storage but mostrly for raid/compression. It raises up to 5gb per tb if you want dedup.
                      So 8gb=8tb of raw (pre raid) storage.
                      ZFS is nice byt you usually can go w/out its features in smb

                      The memory is for dedupe. It needs very little for compression and RAID. Those use CPU, but not RAM (much).

                      @scottalanmiller said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                      @matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                      @scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                      @matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
                      After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

                      Generally go XFS but even ext4 is good. ZFS requires something like 1gb per raw tb of storage but mostrly for raid/compression. It raises up to 5gb per tb if you want dedup.
                      So 8gb=8tb of raw (pre raid) storage.
                      ZFS is nice byt you usually can go w/out its features in smb

                      The memory is for dedupe. It needs very little for compression and RAID. Those use CPU, but not RAM (much).

                      No you are right 1gb is for dedup

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                        scottalanmiller @matteo nunziati
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                        @matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                        @scottalanmiller said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                        @matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                        @scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                        @matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
                        After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

                        Generally go XFS but even ext4 is good. ZFS requires something like 1gb per raw tb of storage but mostrly for raid/compression. It raises up to 5gb per tb if you want dedup.
                        So 8gb=8tb of raw (pre raid) storage.
                        ZFS is nice byt you usually can go w/out its features in smb

                        The memory is for dedupe. It needs very little for compression and RAID. Those use CPU, but not RAM (much).

                        @scottalanmiller said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                        @matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                        @scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

                        @matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
                        After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

                        Generally go XFS but even ext4 is good. ZFS requires something like 1gb per raw tb of storage but mostrly for raid/compression. It raises up to 5gb per tb if you want dedup.
                        So 8gb=8tb of raw (pre raid) storage.
                        ZFS is nice byt you usually can go w/out its features in smb

                        The memory is for dedupe. It needs very little for compression and RAID. Those use CPU, but not RAM (much).

                        No you are right 1gb is for dedup

                        I do this a lot 😉

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