Ever since I retired my old NAS, I’ve been running my home automation (unifi controller, pi-hole, dns, domain controller) and personal storage (NAS) on the same host as my testing setup (‘lab’).
I have been working in IT for over a decade. Before that I pursued a career in experimental physics. It was quite successful, one of the outcomes was research that started a new field.
Like many, the COVID pandemic has me working from home. The times I was physically at the office or at a customer in the last couple of months can be counted on 1 or 2 hands.
In case you read my last two posts and followed along, you now have an all flash ZFS on Linux based datastore. Only problem is, it’s not performing at all.
In the previous post I described how I mounted 4 NVMe flash drives in a single host in order to build an all-flash datastore. In this post, I’ll describe how to move from FreeNAS, TrueNAS (or any other ZFS host OS) to ZFS on Linux, and test if the performance is acceptable to continue with ZFS.
