[TriLUG] Samba WINS DHCP client choice Re: BTRFS dedupe & RAID 1 Re: tips for a new, RPI-based house server

[Pete Soper via TriLUG]

dhcpcd5 was already installed. Onward.

-Pete

On 5/3/20 8:59 PM, Pete Soper wrote:
> When I installed Samba on the Raspberry Pi (latest, updated/upgraded 
> Raspbian), a config dialog popped up asking if I want WINS info to be 
> gotten from DHCP connections and ,if so I need to install dhcp-client. 
> I figured this would be useful so I enabled it, but when I tried to 
> install dhcp-client I got:
>
> Package dhcp-client is a virtual package provided by:
>   dhcpcd5 1:8.1.2-1+rpt1
>   pump 0.8.24-7.1
>   isc-dhcp-client 4.4.1-2
>   dhcpcanon 0.8.5-2
> You should explicitly select one to install.
>
> But then I remembered dnsmasq can provide DHCP, but I assume that's on 
> the server side vs Samba using the client to get info of some sort.
>
> Which is the best client to install? Or is this made moot by dnsmasq?
>
> When installing Samba on the Odroid running Ubuntu 16.04 there was no 
> dialog and I don't think I installed a DHCP client.
>
> Thanks,
> Pete
>
>
> On 5/1/20 8:23 PM, Pete Soper wrote:
>> I just create two ext4 filesystems on their respective drives and 
>> combine them with the raid config into the MDn device. But a single 
>> BTRFS filesystem has inherent support for RAID 1 straddling drives 
>> and the copy on write and potential deduplication support are very 
>> appealing. I just wonder if this would be a bridge too far.
>>
>> -Pete
>>
>> On 5/1/20 7:28 PM, shay walters wrote:
>>>  >  I'd like to stick with ext4 with the RAID management on top,
>>> > but maybe that's not ideal for this sort of thing?
>>>
>>> What I have is one small-ish HD to boot the system.  Then there are 
>>> three other drives that are partitioned as "Linux-RAID" to make a 
>>> device "MD0" which has an EXT4 filesystem on it.  I looked with 
>>> fdisk and gdisk, but both of them are giving me garbage, so I'm now 
>>> not so sure how I partitioned those disks. It's been a long time 
>>> since I did that.  Possibly something with ZFS or BTRFS.    The 
>>> nfs-tools (I think that was it) was a simple install with synaptic, 
>>> as I recall.  There was a bit of configuration, but if I can do it, 
>>> anybody can.
>>>
>>> -Shay
>>>