TrueNAS and Plex

[kccadcam]

Anybody else here into Plex for Media and TV?

I'm building NAS hardware and going to run TrueNAS Scale which uses ZFS partitioning (instead of RAID)
Going to start with one 500gb SSD for the OS and three 14tb NAS Drives with room for a couple more if needed. (Seagate IronWolf Pro)
Will install Plex as a virtual machine and use PCI passthru for Hardware Decoding on the fly.
(Using Nvidia P4 hardware) https://images.nvidia.com/content/pdf/tesla/184457-Tesla-P4-Datasheet-NV-Final-Letter-Web.pdf
 
Should be able to stream media to any/all devices in my house at the same time.
Let the fun begin.........  

[mkd]

is ZFS officially supported in Linux yet?

[kccadcam]

TrueNAS Scale is running Debian so I would assume so?
(TrueNAS Core runs BSD)

[kccadcam]

Here ya go....


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/setup-zfs-storage-pool#1-overview

[neurosis]

is ZFS officially supported in Linux yet?

what do you know about zfs?

[neurosis]

I have a plex server running on a synology. 

I was going to build my own from an old pc that I have in the closet using freebsd but the synology was just easier.

[mkd]

what do you know about zfs?

I invented it
~Al Gore

[neurosis]

I invented it

explain what you know about it. 

Would you build a nas using zfz?

[mkd]

explain what you know about it. 

Would you build a nas using zfz?

My Ubuntu server was setup with it. Havn't had a HDD go bad, so can't claim fault tolerance

[neurosis]

My Ubuntu server was setup with it. Havn't had a HDD go bad, so can't claim fault tolerance

lol.. HUH?

What would make it good for a NAS?


I don't think that any market NAS use ZFS?

I'm not trying to fuck with you (too much)  I've actually asked this question about 8 years ago.  I was trying to build my own media center using FreeBSD. 

I've used FreeBSD since  the 90's.. I've used it to build a home router before routers were a thing.  I still have a bunch of home made firewall scripts using open bsd pf firewall

[mkd]

What would make it good for a NAS?

Dynamic partitions and supposedly modern software raid

[neurosis]

Dynamic partitions and supposedly modern software raid

You know how to use them?  Are they stable? 

[neurosis]

I don't think that any market NAS use ZFS?

I looked it up and I was totally wrong. 

lol 

Apparently now there are several.

there were none when I tried it.

[mkd]

You know how to use them?  Are they stable? 

ubuntu setup handles the install when installing and ...trying to remember if webmin has support for it.

[mkd]

Intriguing