Seefra 1

I’m sure Linux has something for that too, but I don’t know what it is

fuser

“Hey Linux, can you just delete this file please?”

“Sure thing bud, a program is using it, it’s ok, I will just unlink the inode anyway, the program can still access it until it closes the file”

The number of keystrokes needed to type an underscore is the same that you need to type backslash space, so I don’t see how underscores are in improvement

I don’t know, never tried anything like that, I just plug the fans to the 12v voltage rail and leave them full power all the time.

Maybe you can use the raspberry pi gpio to control the fan and get drive temperature via smart to control the fan speed.

I used to run my nas from a raspberry pi with an USB to Sata bridge, but I found that USB cables are as always super unreliable and keep disconnecting and eventually I get filesystem errors, had to format and restore from backup.

I ended up repurposing an old i3 computer as nas. Which worked well for few years until I was scrubbing the harddrives this summer and one of the harddrives died, when I took it off it was super hot. So I learned that having front fans blowing air directly to the hardrives is important so they don’t overheat. I’m not sure if external cases have enough air circulation.

So maybe you could consider the overall reliability of the system and temperature of the harddrive, electricity can be expensive but an 8TB harddrive surely is more. Also you say you want no fan, so that makes things harder, maybe you can use the raspberry pi just as a client and have a big noisy NAS made from some old computer somewhere else in the house? And maybe have it so it wakes up on LAN when it’s being used and powered down when it’s not to safe power?

Isn’t that true for most models until someone destiles and quantises them so they can run on common hardware?

OMG! I’ve been looking for something like this for quite some time!

I will try this as soon as I have time. Thank you!