You are welcome!

@@SonoranTech-hf5hf I was going to give up on truenas! These types of videos are important as it's a great software but does have a learning curve. In comparison Unraid is way easier to use and has alot of tutorials online!

Thank you so much for the kind comment! Glad it was helpful and will keep working on the tutorials!

Tailscale is a good option. One problem I've run into that corporate issues machines are quite restrictive on what you can install, so it rules out many options for remote access.

Yeah, or use a friend's house. It does support backblaze through the s3 interface.

The reason is that the Glacier backup app doesn't support all of the glacier storage classes and you can't use the cheapest storage class. So the glacier app is definitely easier, but will cost quite a bit more in the long run.

What hardware are you running ceph on? Did you hit any performance issues?

@@SonoranTech-hf5hf it's just for the fun so 3x mini-forum i7. no need performance 🙂 The applications HA are working smoothly. The CEPH recovery is very slow.

Also I believe the max core count on this server is 22 cores per cpu giving you 44 cores.

Yep 730xd, my mistake.

What's missing for you?

Agree, I want to do this. Specifically I want to look into how to set up home assistant as the gateway to these devices and cut off their internet access.

Thank you! Glad it was helpful.

Yep total trust buster..

20 years ago it was kinda like.. compile the kernel and hope it works.. :)

​@@SonoranTech-hf5hfLinux has come a lonng way, these days almost all hardware just works. There are some weird quirks, like a Sony camera not reliably connecting because Sony implemented it the right way but on Linux we adapted to Windows doing weird things (yes, this is a thing, you can fix it with a USB-config file somewhere in your /sys directory), for some hardware the support is hacky (Soundblaster soundcards with general drivers, Corsair keyboards which work but are not hotpluggable and are not as reliable in all VM's) but generally it just works. Imagine starting a new kernel in the year 2024, that seems impossible considering how much the Linux kernel has grown in just the last few years. It would be even more a Herculian task than that it was for Linux in the 90's, 00's and 10's. The computing world would be a dark place if we wouldn't have Linux and the *BSD's, we might be locked into proprietary for decades to centuries.

Will try it!

Oh yeah, I am in the Sonoran desert also.

I don't know of an easy way. You would need something that gives you a shell through the DSM interface.. something similar to what you get on proxmox and truenas. I did some quick searching and didn't see any packages that offer this.

I've never had any issues like that, but I use Arch btw.

@@icantcomeupwithnames469 that's not how examples and counter examples work. there're tons of life long smokers who live long enough, but the damage smoking does is statistically significant and proven.

​@@EasyGameEhIt's always worked on my machines, and I don't think I've heard of many Arch users with issues like that, either. It's usually people using distros with stronger stances on non-free software, and those that attempt to have more pre-configured for the user. Using Linux isn't smoking. There is no equivalent to tar buildup in your lungs from using a computer.

@@icantcomeupwithnames469 you're completely missing the point and the analogy. it's not that linux is smoking, it's that the one or several examples of everything being fine don't prove that there're no problems overall.

@@EasyGameEh Bad analogy then, but sure. Then you have to work on diagnosing the actual cause of the issue. Everyone who died of smoking-related issues also drank water, after all.

So after making this video I gave ceph a try. I set up a 3 node proxmox cluster, used the proxmox ceph solution and then exposed it through a VM. It worked, but it took several days to move 5 TB onto the cluster and I never got it to a completely green status with a couple lingering placement group errors. It was pretty cool to see it working, but old commodity hardware and 1GB ethernet doesn't seem like a recipe for success. I figured I'd end up fighting with ceph so I just bailed and went back to a couple of truenas instances running on proxmox. Not as interesting as ceph, but it gets the job done, even with the extra pools.

Why can't Fedora distribute Nvidia binary drivers? Every other distro can. Does Nvidia just hate Fedora?

@@1pcfred well it's an American-based distro and a high-profile one too. Its one thing for say a smaller flavor like MX linux to offer them (also American based) but fedora has ties to redhat.

@@themadoneplays7842 Nvidia expressly grants distribution rights to OSI-approved open source operating systems in clause 1 d So are you suggesting that somehow Fedora is not an OSI-approved open source operating system? Red Hat is an OSI sponsor. So something tells me that OSI is cool with Red Hat.

@@1pcfred you still have patents to contend with though, as that is why fedora cant distribute h264 codecs out of the box anymore. again, even if fedora has relations with Red Hat its still subject to patent laws. Its why debian doesnt ship the nvida driver support out of the box.

@@themadoneplays7842 of course Debian ships Nvidia's driver. I'm using it right now. I already told you it is explicitly allowed in the license. It's right there in black and white. Any Linux distro that doesn't have Nvidia's binary driver is doing it intentionally on their own. Not because Nvidia told them they can't.