Homelab
Posts tagged “Homelab”.
- Why I Self-Host
Privacy, cost, and resilience matter, but the honest reason I self-host is enjoying the work—even when it means drivers and firewall lockouts.
- I Sequenced My Family. We Still Don't Have an Answer.
I sequenced two families and built a rare-disease analysis pipeline. The work produced lessons about evidence and uncertainty, but no diagnosis.
- Building a Local LLM Box That Doesn't Need Babysitting
A field note on assembling a small inference machine, putting Ubuntu Server on it, and getting a stack that runs stable for daily work without constant firefighting.
- The NVMe Specs That Actually Matter for a Homelab
For a Proxmox homelab, sustained writes and endurance matter more than Gen4 versus Gen5—and retailer specification tables can be wrong.
- Migrating a ZFS pool to new drives in Proxmox
Moving a pool to bigger disks with zfs send/receive: build a fresh pool, replicate, destroy the old one, and rename — so Proxmox never notices.
- Passing physical disks to Proxmox VMs
How to give a VM direct access to a physical disk in Proxmox, and when you'd want to do that versus passing through the whole HBA controller.
- LVM Thin Pools in Proxmox
When to use LVM Thin instead of ZFS in Proxmox, how to set it up, and what over-provisioning actually means in practice.
- Creating a ZFS storage pool in Proxmox
How to add a ZFS pool to Proxmox VE and why it's the right storage backend for most homelab VM and container workloads.
- Identifying ZFS disks with /dev/disk/by-id/
Why /dev/sda is the wrong way to reference disks in ZFS, and how to use persistent identifiers to match pool members to physical drives.
- ZFS, BTRFS, and LVM in the Homelab: Picking a Filesystem Without Regret
A concise field guide to the three storage stacks every Proxmox homelab eventually has to choose between — and the gotchas that bite after the fact.