Selfhosted @lemmy.world MajorSauce @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

Homelab upgrade - "Modern" alternatives to NFS, SSHFS?

Hi all!

I will soon acquire a pretty beefy unit compared to my current setup (3 node server with each 16C, 512G RAM and 32T Storage).

Currently I run TrueNAS and Proxmox on bare metal and most of my storage is made available to apps via SSHFS or NFS.

I recently started looking for "modern" distributed filesystems and found some interesting S3-like/compatible projects.

To name a few:

MinIO
SeaweedFS
Garage
GlusterFS

I like the idea of abstracting the filesystem to allow me to move data around, play with redundancy and balancing, etc.

My most important services are:

Plex (Media management/sharing)
Stash (Like Plex 🙃)
Nextcloud
Caddy with Adguard Home and Unbound DNS
Most of the Arr suite
Git, Wiki, File/Link sharing services

As you can see, a lot of download/streaming/torrenting of files accross services. Smaller services are on a Docker VM on Proxmox.

Currently the setup is messy due to the organic evolution of my setup, but since I will upgrade on brand new metal, I was looking for suggestions on the pillars.

So far, I am considering installing a Proxmox cluster with the 3 nodes and host VMs for the heavy stuff and a Docker VM.

How do you see the file storage portion? Should I try a full/partial plunge info S3-compatible object storage? What architecture/tech would be interesting to experiment with?

Or should I stick with tried-and-true, boring solutions like NFS Shares?

Thank you for your suggestions!

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Gluster is ~~shit~~ really bad, garage and minio are great. If you want something tested and insanely powerful go with ceph, it has everything. Garage is fine for smaller installations, and it's very new and not that stable yet.
- Ceph isn't something you want to jump into without research
- Darn, Garage is the only one that I successfully deployed a test cluster.
  
  I will dive more carefully into Ceph, the documentation is a bit heavy, but if the effort is worth it..
  
  Thanks.
  
  I had great experience with garage at first, but it crapped itself after a month, it was like half a year ago and the problem was fixed, still left me with a bit of anxiety.
  
  You need to know what you are doing with Ceph. It can scale to Exobyte levels but you need to do it right.
- go with ceph[:] it has everything
  
  I heard running an object store as a filesystem was considered risky, but that's not why it sometimes hoses your storage.
  
  Last time I had a problem with ceph losing data was during 0.10, does it still happen?

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