Nfs, it’s good enough, and is how everyone accesses it. I’m toying with ceph or some kind of object storage, but that’s a big leap and I’m not comfortable yet

Zfs snapshot to another machine with much less horsepower but similar storage array.

Debian boots off like a 128gb Sata ssd or something, just something mindless that makes it more stable, I don’t want to f with Zfs root.

My pool isn’t encrypted, don’t consider it necessary, though I’ve toyed with it in th past. Anything sensitive I keep on separate USB keys and duplicate them, and I use luks.

I considered virtiofs, it’s not ready for what I need, it’s not meant for this use case and it causes both security and other issues. Mostly it breaks the demarcation so I can’t migrate or retarget to a different storage server cleanly.

These are good ideas, and would work. I use zvols for most of this, in fact I think I pass through a nvme drive to freebsd for its jails.

Docker fucks me here, the volume system is horrible. I made an lxc based system with python automation to bypass this, but it doesn’t help when everyone releases as docker.

I have a simple boot drive for one reason: I want nothing to go wrong with booting, ever, everything after that is negotiable, but the machine absolutely has to show up.

It has a decent uos, but as I mentioned earlier, I live in San Jose and have fucking pge , so weeks without power aren’t fucking unheard of.