It’s been some time since I asked for public donations for hardware. In this case, I’m asking for donations to buy two more storage devices to expand this zpool:
[18:08 r730-01 dvl ~] % zpool list data02 NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT data02 1.73T 1.39T 351G - - 66% 80% 1.00x ONLINE -
Most of the space is used for FreshPorts, however it is not for the exclusive use of FreshPorts. See more detail below.
[18:08 r730-01 dvl ~] % zfs list -r -d 1 data02 NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT data02 1.39T 296G 96K none data02/freshports 983G 296G 88K none data02/jails 355G 296G 9.54G /jails data02/mkjail 96K 296G 96K /mkjail data02/vm 85.9G 296G 7.24G /usr/local/vm
Not all of this space is exclusive to FreshPorts. This zpool is in a host in my basement. This isn’t the public FreshPorts server, it hosts the dvl, dev, test, and stage instances.
Most of that goes to the ingress nodes.
[18:09 r730-01 dvl ~] % zfs list -r -d 1 data02/freshports NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT data02/freshports 983G 296G 88K none data02/freshports/dev-ingress01 240G 296G 88K none data02/freshports/dev-nginx01 57.8M 296G 96K none data02/freshports/dvl-ingress01 14.4G 296G 96K none data02/freshports/dvl-nginx01 22.1M 296G 96K none data02/freshports/jailed 692G 296G 96K none data02/freshports/stage-ingress01 15.8G 296G 96K none data02/freshports/test-ingress01 20.3G 296G 96K none
Some of the non-FreshPorts stuff can be seen here. Looking through, much of it supports the infrastructure behind my basement homelab, the FreshPorts nodes, and other projects.
[19:08 r730-01 dvl ~] % zfs list -r -d 1 data02/jails NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT data02/jails 356G 295G 9.54G /jails data02/jails/bacula 17.0G 295G 16.3G /jails/bacula data02/jails/bacula-sd-02 6.80G 295G 2.84G /jails/bacula-sd-02 data02/jails/bacula-sd-03 6.72G 295G 4.25G /jails/bacula-sd-03 data02/jails/besser 8.13G 295G 3.90G /jails/besser data02/jails/certs 5.24G 295G 2.42G /jails/certs data02/jails/certs-rsync 4.82G 295G 2.41G /jails/certs-rsync data02/jails/cliff2 5.78G 295G 2.47G /jails/cliff2 data02/jails/dev-ingress01 4.47G 295G 3.55G /jails/dev-ingress01 data02/jails/dev-nginx01 6.42G 295G 3.43G /jails/dev-nginx01 data02/jails/dev-pgeu 7.62G 295G 7.62G /jails/dev-pgeu data02/jails/dns-hidden-master 6.34G 295G 2.55G /jails/dns-hidden-master data02/jails/dns1 11.1G 295G 4.94G /jails/dns1 data02/jails/dvl-ingress01 7.79G 295G 4.98G /jails/dvl-ingress01 data02/jails/dvl-nginx01 2.42G 295G 1.15G /jails/dvl-nginx01 data02/jails/git 7.39G 295G 4.34G /jails/git data02/jails/jail_within_jail 757M 295G 743M /jails/jail_within_jail data02/jails/mqtt01 4.42G 295G 2.99G /jails/mqtt01 data02/jails/mydev 25.3G 295G 21.7G /jails/mydev data02/jails/mysql01 16.6G 295G 10.7G /jails/mysql01 data02/jails/nsnotify 5.71G 295G 2.55G /jails/nsnotify data02/jails/pg01 44.3G 295G 13.3G /jails/pg01 data02/jails/pg02 18.0G 295G 10.3G /jails/pg02 data02/jails/pg03 13.6G 295G 9.59G /jails/pg03 data02/jails/pkg01 16.3G 295G 14.0G /jails/pkg01 data02/jails/samdrucker 7.32G 295G 4.27G /jails/samdrucker data02/jails/serpico 6.66G 295G 2.49G /jails/serpico data02/jails/stage-ingress01 4.03G 295G 2.72G /jails/stage-ingress01 data02/jails/stage-nginx01 1.57G 295G 1.25G /jails/stage-nginx01 data02/jails/svn 14.2G 295G 9.76G /jails/svn data02/jails/talos 4.55G 295G 2.39G /jails/talos data02/jails/test-ingress01 2.15G 295G 1.29G /jails/test-ingress01 data02/jails/test-nginx01 4.46G 295G 1.23G /jails/test-nginx01 data02/jails/unifi01 27.4G 295G 12.0G /jails/unifi01 data02/jails/webserver 20.5G 295G 11.4G /jails/webserver
Sure, what drive?
The current zpool has two 2TB drives. Here’s the two year growth chart:
Since Feb 2024, the used space went from 400GB to 1500GB – Let’s say 1TB over 17 months (1000/17 or about 60GB a month. Doubling the disk space should give the host another 2-4 years of growth.
The host in question is a Dell R730 with 2.5 slots. I think it may be using a few NVMe cards mounted in PCI slots, but the replacement preference is for the 2.5″ SSD form factor.
My Amazon searches find SAMSUNG 870 EVO 4TB.
I just thought opening a discussion on the FreeBSD forums to let the community discuss drive selection – I wonder how that would go for consensus.
Here! Take my money!
Do not feel obligated, please. Please do not contribute unless you have plenty of surplus. Yourself should always be your first priority. Not me. Not FreshPorts. I can afford to buy these drives myself. However, I also know people like to contribute. This is not an urgent request. The contributions can come in over time.
I created a Patreon page sometime ago, but only published it today.
