Replacing disks in a software RAID is a nerve-wracking, stress-inducing, ITIL-remembering, backups-checking activity. And I’ve done it six times in the past week. First round was to replace the 5 disks in my FreeNAS box to upgrade the storage from 8TB to 16TB. Thankfully, ZFS is a stupendously rock-solid volume manager and filesystem. It has …
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FreeNAS and the Freak Warnings
I have a FreeNAS fileserver at home for backups and whatever. There’s a system job that runs nightly to look at the security logs and alert me if something’s wrong, for instance, if someone attempted to login and used an incorrect password. For as long as this box has been alive, I’d occasionally get emails …
Slap Head
For those who are keeping score, I’m a dumbass. So, I have a file server at my home that’s running FreeNAS, which is based on FreeBSD, a popular Unix distribution. I have around 7.4 terabytes of storage capacity across 5 disks; that’s a lot of personal files. I bought a single 8TB disk for the …
Plex Transcode, Vex Commode
What good is a streaming media server if it doesn’t stream media? No good, that’s what. Some time after installing the Plex Media Center plugin on my FreeNAS file server, I tweaked some settings. One of those was “Transcoder temporary directory”, which I set to be some folder I created inside my Plex chroot jail. …