Tiny home server project?

[Cláudio Vieira]

Hello Eric,

Thanks for your feedback!

> On 6 Dec 2022, at 23:23, Eric Melville <eric.melville at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> I use dragonfly on a small chinese fanless computer that cost about $90.
> The specifications were something like celeron J1800, 2gb memory, 20gb
> EMMC or close to that. I added a 500gb SSD as HAMMER2 and left the
> root volume as UFS.

I was thinking something along those lines, but chose a ZimaBoard.
It's a bit more powerful, with 8GB memory and 32GB eMMC storage.

You’ve installed DragonFly into the eMMC, formatted with UFS, right?
How is the eMMC holding on? Any signs of wearing out or bad blocks?

> It is a little champion! I use it as a small storage box with NFS and samba.
> I have a big heavy NAS elsewhere, but for this location and what it is
> doing, I could not be happier. Power consumption is minimal, and I get
> all the fancy storage features like snapshots and deduplication.

I plan to do that, but also add some extra services on top!

> Still waiting on remote replication to deploy this for another project, but
> right now it is working great in its current role.

Indeed it would be great to have local and remote replication in HAMMER2.

Cheers,
Cláudio Vieira