FreeNAS Notes Revision as of Saturday, 18 April 2020 at 15:33 UTC
Hardware
Read the Community Hardware Guide to pick my components this time. Cheap shit causes headaches and I expect this build to last me a while.
Configuration
- SuperMicro X11SSM-F-O Micro-ATX: website, manual
- Intel Xeon E3-1230 V6 Kaby Lake
- Seasonic FOCUS Plus Series SSR-850PX 850W 80+ Platinum
crucial - Crucial 16GB ECC Unbuffered memory (CT7982341)
- 5 x Western Digital 4TB Red NAS Drives
- NZXT Source 210
- Rosewill RFT-120 fan filters. Used nylon 8-32 × ½ Phillips flat-head screws to install them.
- An old Intel 80GB SSD Drive
Ran smartctl short, conveyance, and long test with an ArchLinux ISO. Two more resources on drive testing. Ran about 10 rounds of memtest86 on the memory.
Software
- FreeNAS 11
- Followed this guide to install PiHole
- Tautulli and Plex in separate Jails.
- Time Machine for my Mac
Notes
Node Version Manager
# Install NVM
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.2/install.sh | bash
# Install gmake
pkg install gmake
# Export compilers
export CC=cc
export CXX=c++
# Install a version
nvm install v12.14.0
Mounting NTFS Drives and Copying Things
Needed to copy some media out for mum to a Micro SD card.
# See the status of loaded modules
kldstat
# Install the FUSE package for NTFS. Seemed to ship with FreeNAS 11 so
# I didn't have to do this...
pkg install fusefs-ntfs
# Load the FUSE module
kldload fuse
# Show all the disks and their partitions.
gpart show
=> 63 970563521 da2 MBR (463G)
63 1985 - free - (993K)
2048 970561536 1 ntfs (463G)
# The "1" refers to the partition. Make sure it's formatted NTFS
file -s /dev/da2s1
# Mount it
ntfs-3g /dev/da2s1 /mnt/windows
# Unmount it
unmount /mnt/windows
rsync Issues
Would see this in a Jail with mounted volumes:
rsync: mkstemp failed: Operation not permitted
‘Solved’ by adding --acls --no-perms to the rsync command. Don’t use --archive when dealing with custom ACLs.