Scot W. Stevenson scot.stevenson@gmail.com
First version: 15. June 2019
This version: 15. June 2019
This document lists the steps to creating a NAS based on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS with the ZFS filesystem for bulk storage and container (Docker) support. This is just documentation, there is no code. It is provided here in case it proves helpful for other people looking to build their own NAS from scratch.
Note that this is just the GitHub repository for the raw files. The documents themselves are best read at Read the Docs at https://ubuntu-nas.readthedocs.io/. In fact, one major goal of this text was to experiment with reStructured text, Sphinix, and Read the Docs for other projects.
Follow these steps at your own risk. The guide is for my own personal system (which some changes for security reasons) and probably will not work for yours. It most likely also contains errors, and is certainly not a state of the art way to build a server. This system is used in a low-threat environment, and security is not a priority. Also, I'm not a computer professional. In other words, I take no responsibility, especially if you lose your data, which is a very real posibility. Be scared.
I'll be happy to accept corrections, additions, and suggestions as pull requests.
No cats were harmed during the creation of this document, or even woken up.