[Samba] System Requirements for Samba?

[Rob Campbell]

Oh.  I have these 2 usb drives for backup for the file server and
databases.  If that is going to be a problem virtually, that's yet another
reason to go back to the old setup.

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In all things, Be Intentional.


On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 1:23 PM Peter Milesson via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> USB drives is something my FX-6300 does not like very much running Xen.
> USB under Xen is not very intuitive and it's at best very quirky. If
> there is a USB drive connected to a Xen guest, it may fail to disconnect
> when the OS is going down, either for reboot or for power off. Then it
> hangs indefinitely. I guess XenServer or XCP-NG is better, but I will
> not put a bet on that. About KVM, I haven't got any experience, but it's
> a Linux kernel thing, so it's probably handled much more in a standard
> Linux way.
>
> I would avoid USB drives as much as possible in a virtualization
> environment.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Peter
>
> On 30.01.2023 19:02, Rob Campbell via samba wrote:
> > Peter,
> >
> > Off topic but did you have a problem restarting the FX-6300 when there
> was
> > a USB drive connected?  It won't start so if I restart it remotely or
> power
> > goes out, it won't boot back up.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > In all things, Be Intentional.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 1:54 PM Peter Milesson via samba <
> > samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On 29.01.2023 19:08, Rob Campbell via samba wrote:
> >>> This was my reference
> >>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Operating_System_Requirements
> >>>
> >>> I need to rebuild my system due to package corruptions and
> >> unintentionally
> >>> "upgrading" to sid from bullseye, I figured I'd take this time to do
> >> things
> >>> right.  Although this is only for home personal use, everyone keeps
> >> saying
> >>> that I shouldn't run my file server on my DC so I want to build a
> minimal
> >>> server to host 2 vms, one for the DC and the other for the file server.
> >>>
> >>> I have an old FX-6300 with 32Gb RAM.  Is that enough to run 3 servers,
> 1
> >>> host and 2 vms for home use only? I have separated partitions but I
> have
> >>> also segregated data.  My data for my file server is spanned over 2
> >> drives
> >>> and / and /home is on another [currently].  I suspect I will add the
> data
> >>> as storage to the file server vm along with a portion of the other
> drive
> >>> for / and /home and the DC will only have / and /home.  If Debian
> >>> requirements is 10GB HD and 2GB RAM, how much more is needed for Samba
> DC
> >>> and how much more is needed for Samba file server?
> >>>
> >>> *Debian System Requirements*
> >>>
> >>>      - Minimum RAM: 512MB.
> >>>      - Recommended RAM: 2GB.
> >>>      - Hard Drive Space: 10 GB.
> >>>      - Minimum 1GHz Pentium processor.
> >>>
> >>> Oct 19, 2021
> >>>
> >>> A Fresh Installation of Debian 11 Bullseye - Tecmint
> >>> <https://www.tecmint.com/debian-installation-guide/>
> >>>
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> >>> In all things, Be Intentional.
> >> Hi Rob,
> >>
> >> I scrapped my FX-6300 with 16GB of RAM a little more than a year ago.
> >> Basically, it was a virtualization server running Xen (CentOS 7.9), and
> >> then I had a few VMs permanently running: mail server with Postfix and
> >> Dovecot (Slackware based), Samba AD-DC based on Debian Buster, Samba
> >> file server (2TB storage), also based on Debian Buster, Windows 10
> >> (light development for barcode equipment). There were still a few Gbytes
> >> of RAM free for a Linux Slackware VM, or a Windows XP x64 installation.
> >>
> >> So, with your 32 GB of RAM, no problem really. But since I replaced that
> >> rig with a new one (AMD Ryzen 7 5700G), I have been saving about 20% on
> >> my electricity bills. My home server is running round the clock, and the
> >> FX-6300 is quite power hungry.
> >>
> >> HTH.
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >>
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