So here goes my next steps to getting this where I want it...
As I previously wrote... "I have the Pi4 set to boot from USB, and it boots from a Buffalo 2TB USB stick (NVME with a usb 3.0 adapter). I also have 2 Western Digital 2.0TB USB 3.0 SSDs. Would I get acceptable performance if I were to run the OS of the Pi itself off of say a 32GB Sandisk Micro SD card, and connected the USB stick and SSDs to a USB 3.0 hub and ran them members of a single large exported LVM LV?"
The plan at this time is thus.
Ordered a 256GB Micro SD card to run as the system drive. Should be here this afternoon sometime. Will flash it with Raspberry Pi OS and the base configuration before I tear down the existing setup. (Still running Plex from the existing).
Boot from the Micro SD card with the current boot drive (The Buffalo USB 3.0 NVME) unplugged from USB. Get it up to running and on the network with the new IP and hostname that is oh so creative. filer.local.... Okay lazy network naming...
Once it is on the network, and I have ssh / sudo access and the OS is fully updated, switch to root with roots environment, sudo su -, then...
run apt-get install lvm2 -y to get my lvm goodies installed.
Blow out the partitions on the 3 USB disks fdisk -l to show the devices, looking for the 2TB devices, yeah maxing fdisk out...
set each disk with a single GPT partition of 2TB, save and close.
pvcreate each disk.
vgcreate add each disk to the vg
lvcreate that vg...
Create the filesystem on the lv.
mkfs.xfs /dev/vgname/lvname
Create my mountpoint, test the mounting, and make it permanent via fstab.
Once the fstab is happy and mount point comes up persistent upon reboot I can start setting up NFS sharing of the new 6TB volume.
Diving headlong into k3s networking. The entire point of this excersize is for me to learn kubernetes clustering on hardware I have access to on a thin budget... so k3s it is...
As I previously wrote... "I have the Pi4 set to boot from USB, and it boots from a Buffalo 2TB USB stick (NVME with a usb 3.0 adapter). I also have 2 Western Digital 2.0TB USB 3.0 SSDs. Would I get acceptable performance if I were to run the OS of the Pi itself off of say a 32GB Sandisk Micro SD card, and connected the USB stick and SSDs to a USB 3.0 hub and ran them members of a single large exported LVM LV?"
The plan at this time is thus.
Ordered a 256GB Micro SD card to run as the system drive. Should be here this afternoon sometime. Will flash it with Raspberry Pi OS and the base configuration before I tear down the existing setup. (Still running Plex from the existing).
Boot from the Micro SD card with the current boot drive (The Buffalo USB 3.0 NVME) unplugged from USB. Get it up to running and on the network with the new IP and hostname that is oh so creative. filer.local.... Okay lazy network naming...
Once it is on the network, and I have ssh / sudo access and the OS is fully updated, switch to root with roots environment, sudo su -, then...
run apt-get install lvm2 -y to get my lvm goodies installed.
Blow out the partitions on the 3 USB disks fdisk -l to show the devices, looking for the 2TB devices, yeah maxing fdisk out...
set each disk with a single GPT partition of 2TB, save and close.
pvcreate each disk.
vgcreate add each disk to the vg
lvcreate that vg...
Create the filesystem on the lv.
mkfs.xfs /dev/vgname/lvname
Create my mountpoint, test the mounting, and make it permanent via fstab.
Once the fstab is happy and mount point comes up persistent upon reboot I can start setting up NFS sharing of the new 6TB volume.
Diving headlong into k3s networking. The entire point of this excersize is for me to learn kubernetes clustering on hardware I have access to on a thin budget... so k3s it is...
Statistics: Posted by dbhosttexas — Sat Feb 08, 2025 5:17 pm