Comment by arjie
24 days ago
I suppose archival is as close to realistic as possible. It's intended for a personal Internet archive of a subset of sites I wish to crawl and store. I will query the data rarely, but I intend to store recent updates and so on. I have lots of CMR disks so I intend to use those. I intend to use zfs and I'm hoping I can add more disks later to the pool. What is your experience in gradually growing your storage and having to resilver? Do you just create new volumes?
i don't use zfs, so i am unsure. I have associates that manage ZFS stuff, but nothing at this scale. I'm sure zfs for your use case will be just fine, though. I mean archival and not heavy cache / deletions / etc.
I won't belabor my love for ext4 and basic tools :-)
Haha, no no. If ext4 is working fine for you that's great. I mentioned zfs because I hope to be able to expand a zpool with more drives and so on. Please do share if you have done things like that with LVM + ext4 or something like that.
yes, lvm lets you extend by, for example, adding physical volumes to volume groups, which then let you expand your logical volume (like /volume1 mountpoint) - i checked man lvm for lvm2 on devuan and that confirmed my memory.