Subj : Re: Plex Media Server drive upgrade
To   : Nightfox
From : claw
Date : Sat Jul 16 2022 10:22:29

On 15 Jul 2022, Nightfox said the following...
 Ni> I have Linux installed on it.  I'm not familiar with ZFS or JBOD..?
 Ni> 
 Ni> Nightfox

JBOD just stands for Just a bunch of disks.  Wherever you see that just means the its a pile of disks being used in someway.  

ZFS is a unique files system that allows for easy expansion, live back up, greater performance and much more.  So lets say your drives getting full and you want to add another to the pool (a pool a JBOD tied together) and expand the storage.  Easy just slap that disk in go to the config and tell it to add the disk.  The space is just added and all the disks act as 1 drive to the system so no figuring now to organize mount points. 

There's a ok read on it on the TrueNAS site
https://www.truenas.com/zfs/

There are a ton of softwares that make it easy to setup and use.  But if your so inclined you can just learn about it while setting it up and have it on any Linux system without additional software.  You will have to manually manage it when adding new disks but, if you set it up in the first place that will be pretty easy.

Hope this helps.  Feel free to reach out sometime on MRC if you have questions.  I'm on most days.  If you need access to MRC you can sign up at my board and use it from the main menu with (!). 

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