I am soon to acquire a Raspberry Pi 5 8Gb and am hoping to turn it into a "simple" LAN-only network file server with read-only files, using overlayfs.
I have around 8 NTFS externally powered usb3 disks ranging in size from 2Tb to 8Tb and each has folder trees full of files.
I'd like to
1. present the folder trees on them as a single "merged" folder tree, probably using overlayfs and fstab
2. share "merged" folder tree with SMB/CIFS and NFS and DLNA if I can get these to work with overlayfs.
(I do not want to use OpenMediaVault or plex because they connect to the internet and I don't want gear which does that, and I want to use the Raspberry Pi 5 for other things as well)
ChatGPT tells me it's possible and that I could still copy new/updated files directly to individual disk's folders (infrequently), or temporarily pop disks over onto a win11 PC for that since they are all NTFS which win11 can deal with.
So ... I now have 2 new TP-Link UH400 unpowered USB3 hubs https://www.tp-link.com/au/home-network ... ory/uh400/ with say 4 externally-powered USB3 disks to be attached to each unpowered USB3 hub.
The unpowered USB3 hubs will plug into the two USB3 ports of the Raspberry Pi 5, with overlayfs to present them as one folder tree.
Hence, will a Raspberry Pi 5 running latest (Bookworm) OS be able to handle those 2 USB3 hubs in term of powering them and recognising them as separate usb3 hubs with attached externally-powered usb3 disks ?
Whilst asking about the Pi 5, do you reckon a Pi4B 8 Gb would be able handle it ?
I'm open to other ideas if you'd recommend them over this approach.
Thanks !
I have around 8 NTFS externally powered usb3 disks ranging in size from 2Tb to 8Tb and each has folder trees full of files.
I'd like to
1. present the folder trees on them as a single "merged" folder tree, probably using overlayfs and fstab
2. share "merged" folder tree with SMB/CIFS and NFS and DLNA if I can get these to work with overlayfs.
(I do not want to use OpenMediaVault or plex because they connect to the internet and I don't want gear which does that, and I want to use the Raspberry Pi 5 for other things as well)
ChatGPT tells me it's possible and that I could still copy new/updated files directly to individual disk's folders (infrequently), or temporarily pop disks over onto a win11 PC for that since they are all NTFS which win11 can deal with.
So ... I now have 2 new TP-Link UH400 unpowered USB3 hubs https://www.tp-link.com/au/home-network ... ory/uh400/ with say 4 externally-powered USB3 disks to be attached to each unpowered USB3 hub.
The unpowered USB3 hubs will plug into the two USB3 ports of the Raspberry Pi 5, with overlayfs to present them as one folder tree.
Hence, will a Raspberry Pi 5 running latest (Bookworm) OS be able to handle those 2 USB3 hubs in term of powering them and recognising them as separate usb3 hubs with attached externally-powered usb3 disks ?
Whilst asking about the Pi 5, do you reckon a Pi4B 8 Gb would be able handle it ?
I'm open to other ideas if you'd recommend them over this approach.
Thanks !
Statistics: Posted by hydra3333 — Fri Jul 12, 2024 10:06 am
