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Building your own NAS/homelab machine is neverending process.

I started with a plain external drive ~15 years ago, then connected it via USB to PC Engines Alix, then moved to two-bay Synology NAS, then built my first small and passive mini-ITX machine (sporting Athlon 200GE) with 4 drives and yesterday, I rebuilt it with Ryzen 5600G, 3x12TB drives in RAID5, 1TB NVMe in PCI-E for VMs, 512GB NVMe for system and containers, 64 GB RAM...

Everything encrypted, services running in podman containers, a few VMs will come... it will be a long configuration weekend, learning new stuff again 😻

Can't believe I used to run services directly as root and even used samba and other messy stuff.

BTW, #cockpit in Fedora Server rocks! I tried to use it ~2 years ago and it was not a pleasant experience, but now, I did most of the stuff there instead of command line.

Also am interested in #stratis - not for this server, but for another one. Looks like a nice umbrella storage system for my 10+ spare HDDs and SSDs with different sizes which I want to use to spin-up a pure backup server one day, if I find a reasonable motherboard for it with enough SATA ports... (see https://stratis-storage.github.io/ for details - thanks @shine for mentioning it to me)

#FedoraServer #NAS #homelab

stratis-storage.github.ioStratis Storage

My Fedora Server install decided to break this morning. I don't think there was a power event, as the UPS would have woken me up, but it's behaving that way. Seems to be an xfs error on one of my disks - something about a missing superblock? I'm very annoyed and frustrated- I wanted to relax today. /:

This is a very cool and easy to follow story of one person's personal needs for their server.

They start with assuming they stability as high as RHEL with consistent versioning, but over time containers erases that concern so they are freed up to think about other nice things like having newer software.

If you've wondered why people use Fedora Server when CentOS and RHEL exist, this is one reason!

➡️ fedoramagazine.org/why-did-i-c

Fedora Magazine · Why did I choose Fedora Server? - Fedora MagazineThe article runs through the history of decisions and reasons why I chose different tools and Operating Systems with the relevant context for each step.

I wanted to build a server on Fedora for S/390, but I ran into some problems. I thought it was on Fedora, but upon studying the situation in more detail, I found out it was on QEMU/KVM.
Regardless, it seems to me a problem that would not be solved so easily. So I decided to build my server on Fedora for x86_64 and it's going great. A friend recommended "Hercules", but I still don't know how to use it and because it's more complex, it would postpone my plans.

Yesterday I installed Fedora Server 38 for x86_64, QEMU/KVM allows running it with great performance, as if it were running directly on the hardware, but when I send the system to shutdown (I used the "halt" command in the console), it doesn't appear no more messages, the screen is completely black and does not turn off. Forced me to force shutdown by Virt Manager.

I would like to understand this, if anyone knows and can help me, I appreciate it.