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Homelab upgrade - "Modern" alternatives to NFS, SSHFS? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

sshfs is somewhat unmaintained, only "high-impact issues" are being addressed https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs

I would go for NFS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

And if you need to mount a directory over SSH, I can recommend rclone and its mount subcommand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But NFS has mediocre snapshotting capabilities (unless his setup also includes >10g nics)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I assume you are referring to Filesystem Snapshotting? For what reason do you want to do that on the client and not on the FS host?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have my NFS storage mounted via 2.5G and use qcow2 disks. It is slow to snapshot...

Maybe I understand your question wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If i understand you correctly, your Server is accessing the VM disk images via a NFS share?

That does not sound efficient at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

No other easy option I figured out.
Didnt manage to understand iSCSI in the time I was patient with it and was desperate to finish the project and use my stuff.
Thus NFS.