Edit2: OK Per feedback I am going to have a dedicated external NAS and a separate homeserver. The NAS will probably run TrueNAS. The homeserver will use an immutable os like fedora silverblue. I am doing a dedicated NAS because it can be good at doing one thing - serving files and making backups. Then my homeserver can be good at doing whatever I want it to do without accidentally torching my data.

I haven’t found any good information on which distro to use for the NAS I am building. Sure, there are a few out there. But as far as I can tell, none are immutable and that seems to be the new thing for long term durability.

Edit: One requirement is it will run a media server with hardware transcoding. I’m not quite sure if I can containerize jellyfin and still easily hardware transcode without a more expensive processor that supports hyper-v.

  • kevincox
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    5 months ago

    I use NixOS for this. It works wonderfully.

    Immutable means different things to different people, but to me:

    1. Different programs don’t conflict with each other.
    2. My entire server config is stored in a versioned Git repo.
    3. I can rollback OS updates trivially and pick which base OS version I want to use.