Hello everyone.
as the subj. says I have a dilemma of enormous proportions here
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I had build out a proxmox server for my home recently. (a heads up here, this is NOT a hosted server. this is self-built hardware box based on SuperMicro 24 HDD case tricked-out to use SOHO AMD FX MB with AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core Processor, 16GB RAM) that is running in my home basement. so most (if not all) access will be with in my home network, wired and wireless.
here is what I need/want to have:
#1. I have 2x1TB drives in BTRFS RAID-1 setup that I want to use for HOST(PROXMOX) storage needs.
all system is built on 400GB HDD that I might replace with an SSD some time in the future.not sure if I need the SSD for this server as in my case it would only speed up boot time, and since I plan for the system to be up most of the time speeding up reboots are not an issue.
I do however want to share the system storage volume on network so I can load ISO and other images directly to it from anywhere, not just use upload on proxmox web GUI.
#2. I have a single 2TB drive with data volumes from which I want to expose to all networked system on the LAN. This would hold all my File server data. currently I created a BTRFS volume on that drive and added several sub-volumes to it (BTRFS things) like @FileDump, @UserData, @Media etc.
the sub-volumes names and number may change but the idea is to have a certain layout and expose it to the network as each individual share.
I will be adding more drives (have some extra 2TB and 3TB coming out of my old file server as soon as I can move the data on them to the new setup.) and extending the data volume on it in BTRFS RAID-1 configuration (as we all know BTRFS have capability to expand and change configuration across multiple raw devices so if I wish I can re configure the RAID type later to RAID-10 if needed.)
I need to have different type access to some of the shares I expose.
a Read Only for ALL non-admin and guest users, for most of the Media and ISO/image data stores.
a Write(Read) for specific mediaAdmin user for above shares.
A full access to FileDump share. this will be the share where anyone could put file into and read file from.
for the most part it should be mostly empty once all data is moved to proper data store.
and a Full access per user and admins for the UserData share(s) no access to anyone elese.
so the question is really, should I just try to setup NFS exports for all this and figure out the management schema on the main HOST. OR create a VM based on OMV or Owncloud of other file server setup, and pass through the drives into it.
I would still need to NFS export the system data store volume (the 1TB drives used for system) but that is easy to manage as I would need only to add a specific user with write access to the system for that.
please advice...
PS> I had read all/most post on this board with reference to NFS and file server I could find.
but their are ether do not have the answer I seek or posters need is different from mine and the solution will not work for me.
as the subj. says I have a dilemma of enormous proportions here
.I had build out a proxmox server for my home recently. (a heads up here, this is NOT a hosted server. this is self-built hardware box based on SuperMicro 24 HDD case tricked-out to use SOHO AMD FX MB with AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core Processor, 16GB RAM) that is running in my home basement. so most (if not all) access will be with in my home network, wired and wireless.
here is what I need/want to have:
#1. I have 2x1TB drives in BTRFS RAID-1 setup that I want to use for HOST(PROXMOX) storage needs.
all system is built on 400GB HDD that I might replace with an SSD some time in the future.not sure if I need the SSD for this server as in my case it would only speed up boot time, and since I plan for the system to be up most of the time speeding up reboots are not an issue.
I do however want to share the system storage volume on network so I can load ISO and other images directly to it from anywhere, not just use upload on proxmox web GUI.
#2. I have a single 2TB drive with data volumes from which I want to expose to all networked system on the LAN. This would hold all my File server data. currently I created a BTRFS volume on that drive and added several sub-volumes to it (BTRFS things) like @FileDump, @UserData, @Media etc.
the sub-volumes names and number may change but the idea is to have a certain layout and expose it to the network as each individual share.
I will be adding more drives (have some extra 2TB and 3TB coming out of my old file server as soon as I can move the data on them to the new setup.) and extending the data volume on it in BTRFS RAID-1 configuration (as we all know BTRFS have capability to expand and change configuration across multiple raw devices so if I wish I can re configure the RAID type later to RAID-10 if needed.)
I need to have different type access to some of the shares I expose.
a Read Only for ALL non-admin and guest users, for most of the Media and ISO/image data stores.
a Write(Read) for specific mediaAdmin user for above shares.
A full access to FileDump share. this will be the share where anyone could put file into and read file from.
for the most part it should be mostly empty once all data is moved to proper data store.
and a Full access per user and admins for the UserData share(s) no access to anyone elese.
so the question is really, should I just try to setup NFS exports for all this and figure out the management schema on the main HOST. OR create a VM based on OMV or Owncloud of other file server setup, and pass through the drives into it.
I would still need to NFS export the system data store volume (the 1TB drives used for system) but that is easy to manage as I would need only to add a specific user with write access to the system for that.
please advice...
PS> I had read all/most post on this board with reference to NFS and file server I could find.
but their are ether do not have the answer I seek or posters need is different from mine and the solution will not work for me.
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