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0 pointsbityard2y ago0 comments

On a single host, you could do this with LVM. Add a pair of disks, make them a RAID 1, create a physical volume on them, then a volume group, then a logical volume with XFS on top. To expand, you add a pair of disks, RAID 1 them, and add them to the LVM. It's a little stupid, but it would work.

If multiple nodes are not off the table, also look into seaweedfs.

Also consider how (or if) you are going to back up your hoard of data.

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matheusmoreira2y ago

> Also consider how (or if) you are going to back up your hoard of data.

I actually emailed backblaze years ago about their supposedly unlimited consumer backup plan. Asked them if they would really allow me to dump into their systems dozens of terabytes of encrypted undeduplicable data. They responded that yes, they would. Still didn't believe them, these corporations never really mean it when they say unlimited. Plus they had no Linux software.

nijave2y ago

> these corporations never really mean it when they say unlimited. Plus they had no Linux software

Afaik they rely on the latter to mitigate the risk of the former.

Snow_Falls2y ago

Considering the fact that most data heavy servers are llnux, that would be a pretty clever way of staying true to their word.

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