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  • That’s rad… I have a set of Ansible playbooks/roles/collections already for most system-wide settings. I have a love-hate relationship with Ansible though, but it gets the job done. I may try for cloud-init first until I reach its limitations. I’ve gotten pretty good at the Arch install too, although setting up the disks with LUKS was the most challenging part. Fortunately, the few times I’ve broke things I’ve been able to boot the installer ISO and mount my LUKS volumes from memory, but I couldn’t tell you how I set them up in the first place. 🤣 However I do it, I really just want to automate the process so that I can add new nodes and expand should I decide to rent out colocation space someday.


  • Thanks so much for the very detailed reply. I think at this point I’m conflicted between using TrueNAS or going all in and trying SDS. I’m leaning towards SDS primarily because I want to build experience, but heck maybe I’ll end up doing both and testing it out first and see what clicks.

    I’ve setup Gluster before for OpenStack and had a pretty good experience, but at the time the performance was substantially worse than Ceph (however it may have gotten much better). Ceph was really challenging and required a lot of planning when I used it last in a previous role, but it seems like Rook might solve most of that. I don’t really care about rebuild times… I’m fine if it takes a day or two to recover the data as long as I don’t lose any.

    As long as I make sure to have an offsite backup/replica somewhere then I guess I can’t go too wrong. Thanks for explaining the various configurations of Gluster. That will be extremely helpful if I decide to go that route, and if performance can be tuned to match Ceph then I probably will.







  • It does include coreutils and other GNU packages, but they aren’t installed by default. This is perfect for a server install or Docker image where Busybox is just enough to accomplish most basic tasks, but if I was using it for a desktop OS then you better believe I’m installing the GNU wget and other packages so that I can follow redirects and what not.