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

Sun May 3 23:05:36 EDT 2020

On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 10:03 PM Pete Soper via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> dhcpcd5 was already installed. Onward.
>
      I thought WINS was deprecated by Microsoft (removed from 2016)
in lieu of proper DNS since Win 2008/XP, unless you have really
old-ass Windows boxes.

> -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
> >>>
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