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Well I use a fire stick with smartube and jellyfin. Works just fine for my needs. YMMV

I remember the old videos of rockets exploding on launch pads when we were first building them. We have come a long way.

I suspect they will just learn something new from this and they will last even longer.

That's what I said. Cow on top of cow is bad. Pretty sure ext4 isn't on option on opnsense. UFS or zfs. Which is the only reason I mentioned it at all when presented with that choice.

I have been considering just installing Debian on a small PC then the jellyfin media player application set to auto start. I can think of a few different ways to get this done maybe with a couple user accounts.

I like the idea of being able to change the application that automatically starts. Maybe I want to try Kodi again. I would just change the startup app.

Get your firewall right then maybe add fail2ban.

You could also consider IDs/IPs on your primary router/firewall if this is internal. If not you can install surricata on a public server. Obviously if you go with something as powerful as surricata you no longer need fail2ban.

Keep a sharp eye on any users with sudo. Beyond that consider docker as others have mentioned.

It does add to security because it allows the developers a bit more control of what packages are utilized for their applications. It creates a more predictable environment.

It seems that way but it performs better than zfs on top of zfs. The only os I ran into that with was opnsense when I was playing with a virtualized firewall.

Within guests these days I just use XFS, UFS, or NTFS depending on the os. The hypervisor can have zfs or ceph.

I'm spoiled now. I prefer ubiquiti equipment for my network, security camera, and even door access.

However, if you prefer completely open source I can recommend opnsense and openwrt. Personally I prefer a single point of configuration... So all ubiquiti for me.. It makes it easy to restore a complete network configuration as you are discovering is a pain.

Maybe start with the new cloud gateway max as a router if you are interested.

You might look at gluetun. It lets you configure various VPN services from a docker container. The interesting part is that you can point other docker containers to utilize gluetun for networking. Essentially piping them through the configured VPN.

Not without good logs or debugging tools.

You need to know what to observe. You are not going to get the information you are looking for directly from zfs or even system logs.

What I suggest stands. You have to understand the behavior of the USB controller. That information is acquired from researching USB itself.

Now if you intend to utilize something like a USB enclosure you indeed would be better off with something like ext4. However, keep in mind that this effect is not directly a file system issue. It's an issue with how USB controllers interact with file systems.

That has been my experience from researching this matter. ZFS is simply more sensitive.

In my experience even for motherboards that have port limitations it's possible to take advantage of pci lanes and install a hba with an onboard SATA controller. They also make pci devices that will accept nvme drives.

Good luck with your experimentation and research.

This takes a degree of understanding of what you are doing and why it fails.

I've done some research on this myself and the answer is the USB controller. Specifically the way the USB controller "shares" bandwidth. It is not the way a sata controller or a pci lane deals with this.

ZFS expects direct control of the disk to operate correctly and anything that gets in between the file system and the disk is a problem.

I the case of USB let's say you have two USB - nvme adapters plugged in to the same system in a basic zfs mirror. ZFS will expect to mirror operations between these devices but will be interrupted by the USB controller constantly sharing bandwidth between these two devices.

A better but still bad solution would be something like a USB to SATA enclosure. In this situation if you installed a couple disks in a mirror on the enclosure... They would be using a single USB port and the controller would at least keep the data on one lane instead of constantly switching.

Regardless if you want to dive deeper you will need to do reading on USB controllers and bandwidth sharing.

If you want a stable system give zfs direct access to your disks and accept it will damage zfs operations over time if you do not.

Have a look at Stirling PDF. It's a self hosted alternative to most if not all Adobe functions that she might care about. It can be setup with docker.

https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF