Tag: storage

Bind mounts are fast and simple; NFS is shared and flexible for containers. Pick wrong and your database corrupts at 2 AM. Here is how to choose wisely.

Bcachefs got booted from the Linux mainline kernel and now ships as a DKMS module. Stability verdict, tiering, and a straight answer for home lab use in 2026.

Your RAID 5 rebuild on a modern multi-TB drive has a 40-50% chance of hitting a URE before it finishes. Here's the 2026 math and what to do about it.

RAID 6 and RAID 10 both survive two dead disks and both need four drives. But they get there completely differently, and that difference matters.

RAID 0 is fast and terrifying, RAID 1 is boring and beautiful, RAID 5 is the NAS compromise. How to pick the right one for your home lab drives.

ZFS is the paranoid fortress of filesystems. Btrfs is the scrappy upstart built into your kernel. Here's which one belongs in your home lab.

Learn IPFS distributed storage: content addressing, CIDs, installing the IPFS daemon, pinning files, public gateways, and real use cases for resilient self-hosted file storage.

du and df still work, but Rust-era tools like dust, duf, and fclones make disk triage faster and way less painful in 2026.

Tmpfs vs ramfs on Linux: mount RAM-backed filesystems for blazing-fast temp storage. Covers fstab, Docker tmpfs mounts, CI/CD use cases, and the key differences.

You updated your container and your database is gone. Here's the volume permission mistake killing your data.

MinIO vs SeaweedFS compared for self-hosted S3 storage: setup, performance, Docker Compose configs, S3 API compatibility, and which one fits your home lab or production workload.

Replace Nextcloud's local filesystem with MinIO as an S3-compatible backend. Full Docker setup, bucket policies, performance tuning, and why this scales better.