Re: [GTALUG] free old tower computers

[Amos H. Weatherill via talk]

Hello Hugh,

I would be interested in either system, provided that they also have a VGA Out.

Otherwise, I'd be interested in the 780.

Thank You,
Amos

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Sent: Sat, 03 Feb 2024 17:27
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] free old tower computers

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk 

| - Dell Inspiron 530

Includes an ATI video card with DVI out.

| - Dell OptiPlex 780

Includes an ATI video card with DVI and HDMI out.
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Re: [GTALUG] Which Distro is Best for Running a ZFS-on-Linux Fileserver.

[Amos H. Weatherill via talk]

Hello All,

Thank you for your Feedback and Discussion.

FreeBSD is a good suggestion but I don't want to wander away from what I know 
and as Scott pointed out, this is a Linux User Group ...

Also, once I get More RAM, I will want to Consolidate Services running on other 
machines on to the NAS.

Currently, I have 8 GB of RAM, which my reading says should be enough to 
support a 4 TB ZFS Pool and the Necessary Samba configuration.

At the moment, my Network copy speed appears to be limited to about 25 MB/s but 
I suspect that this is because my Shares are on a Windows Machine with a PCI 
SATA Card.

So, if the NAS can do better, I'll declare Victory ...

Scott,

My reasoning for / on ZFS is pretty Simple ... the machine that is becoming my 
first NAS only has 4 SATA Ports, so I can't afford to Waste one on a boot drive.

For Distro, I think I'll go with Fedora, as long as the / on ZFS guide is 
sufficiently detailed.

Thank You All,
Amos

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-Original Message-
From: Scott Sullivan via talk 
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Sent: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Which Distro is Best for Running a ZFS-on-Linux 
Fileserver.

Having read through the thread to date, I'm actually a little 
disappointed at the number of linux users pushing towards a Solaris or 
BSD for ZFS.

My primary File servers (4 of them) are all using ZFS for their data 
partitions.


Amos,

## Couple of Answers to your questions

A) Disto?

I regularly run ZFS on CentOS and Fedora on a mix of SSDs and HDDs of 
both the internal and external varieties. Fedora has some caveats, only 
in that sometimes the kernel releases get ahead of what the ZFS on linux 
team will support. And it's just a matter of waiting on a working kernel 
zfs combination a week or two for them to catch up.

But frankly, just pick your favorite distro and follow the relevant 
getting started guide.

https://zfsonlinux.org/


B)  Distro with ZFS root support (at install time)?

No distro install supports this yet as I've seen. Although the do it 
yourself ubuntu guide is lengthy, but very well detailed.

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-18.04-Root-on-ZFS

Arch also support ZFS root, but their installation is all largely manual 
to begin with.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_on_ZFS


## Couple of my own Questions

1) Why root (/) on ZFS, what is your use case / risk your trying to 
mitigate?


On 2018-08-24 02:26 PM, right.maple.nut via talk wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Like the Subject Line says, I'm setting up a ZFS File Server for my Home 
> Network.
> 
> Given that I will have to go to the trouble of setting up the Distro and 
> Migrating the Linux Install to ZFS Root, I don't want to have to do this 
> too many times.
> 
> So, which Distro are the favourite for Running ZFS-on-Linux?
> 
> Also, is there such a thing as a Linux Distro that is smart enough to 
> give you a choice if you are willing to use non-GPL'ed code in the 
> Installer, so that I can just Install Directly on a ZFS Pool?
> 
> Thank You in Advance for your Input.
> 
> Regards,
> Amos
> 
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Re: [GTALUG] Fwd: Bell Fibe -- thoughts?

[Amos H. Weatherill via talk]

Hello Alex,

The other major problem with the Fibe Service is that they refuse to provide 
Static IP Addresses with their Residental Service Offerings.

Cheers,
Amos

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To: Alex Beamish , GTALUG Talk 
Sent: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:50
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Fwd: Bell Fibe -- thoughts?


Fibe is just VDSL2 but slightly broken.

Teksavvy can also provide Fibe like services depending on the area.

The thing that I believe is still being held back from the DSL resellers 
is FibeTV.



On 08/23/2016 09:14 PM, Alex Beamish via talk wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've had a persistent salesman at my door promoting Bell Fibe, so I 
> thought I'd better canvass TLUG members to find out if anyone's using 
> it, and what their feedback is.
>
> I'm currently on ADSL through TekSavvy, and that's been working fine 
> for the last year -- it's about half the cost of Sympatico, gives me 
> lots more bandwidth, and has a 300G monthly cap compared to Bell's 
> 60G. Bell Fibe is unlimited (sic).
>
> Thanks for your feedback ..
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Re: [GTALUG] dinner tomorrow night

[Amos H. Weatherill via talk]

Thanks, I'll head there too.

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From: Christopher Browne <cbbro...@gmail.com>
To: "Amos H. Weatherill" <amos.weather...@zoho.com>, GTALUG Talk 
<talk@gtalug.org>, "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <h...@mimosa.com>, dav...@spamcop.net, 
David Collier-Brown <dave...@rogers.com>
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Subject: Re: [GTALUG] dinner tomorrow night

Looks like a recommendation for Bocconcini (once called love at first bite)
with fall back to z-teca on failure.

I'm planning to head in that direction...

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016, 4:39 PM Amos H. Weatherill via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
wrote:

> So, where is dinner?
>
> I see three options but no consensus.
>
> Sent from my android device.
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> Subject: Re: [GTALUG] dinner tomorrow night
>
> On 08/08/16 04:01 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
>
> 96 Gerrard St. E
>
>
> I like it!
>
>
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Re: [GTALUG] dinner tomorrow night

[Amos H. Weatherill via talk]

So, where is dinner?

I see three options but no consensus.

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Subject: Re: [GTALUG] dinner tomorrow night

On 08/08/16 04:01 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> 96 Gerrard St. E

I like it!


--dave

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