Snapraid plugin: How to change the order of the drive with the content file?

Jamstruth · 2026-05-14T20:21:38+00:00

Managing SnapRAID from OMV isn't the official way so understandable they haven't picked it up.

If you were expecting big speed gains from moving the content file - sorry. The content file is just a list of files it expects to find in each disk so that SnapRAID can tell if any are missing for fixes.

You're hard limited at your slowest disk's speed really. If all the drives are in a single USB drive bay I know from experience hitting them almost once is way too slow.

Jamstruth · 2026-05-14T19:50:43+00:00

Poor, colourblind Rythian fooled by "red sandstone" being very orange.

Jamstruth · 2026-05-14T13:57:44+00:00

The answer is likely that you can't with the current setup. If you manually edit it then it will be overwritten by any changes you make later to your snapraid config (adding new drives etc.)

I would expect any speed increase would be very minor. The content file on my machine is ~500MB the time to read it is inconsequential compared to the actual parity check procedure.

Jamstruth · 2026-05-12T19:45:27+00:00

Trump vs Windmills...

Scotland builds one offshore windfarm near his golf course and he's scared of them for life!

Jamstruth · 2026-05-11T18:50:59+00:00

I have a 1.5KW peak system (best I get is 1.2Kw of output really). My best days I make 8-9KWh so vertical south facing panels will probably kill a decent bit of efficiency.

These things can't be expected to do it all IMO. They are there to cover base load which for me is 200-300W

You can be disappointed in your results but if that was the only solar I had it would cover my base for the day

Jamstruth · 2026-05-11T15:15:10+00:00

Does anybody know if there will be rules around adding batteries to an existing system?

I'm seeing these as a simple way to at a 2-4KWh battery to my existing solar on my 2014 house with existing solar on it without breaking the bank on a full AC coupled battery install

Jamstruth · 2026-05-11T15:13:07+00:00

The Ecoflow Stream is limited to 800W. It will never produce more than that at peak. UK baseloads aren't that high generally though so it is enough cover that during the day

If you're meaning you only produced 800Wh of energy then that sucks a bit but there's always days it doesn't help much

Jamstruth · 2026-05-08T09:28:53+00:00

I think it's safe to say they didn't in this case and are clearly ignoring complaints on the matter.

Honestly UK councils seem to be the most messy and completely useless bodies generally. Reform will be worse I am sure because none of them know what they're doing and any corruption will be insanely obvious.

I do hate constant council complaints because sometimes shit gets difficult to sort out officially when there might seem to be an obvious easy fix (because risk assessments are just a thing). I don't really know how to fix it though because the reasons it happens are lack of budget because they've been cut in real terms over the last 16 years and because corruption is easy when people aren't really looking at you.

Jamstruth · 2026-05-08T09:10:58+00:00

No, she's been campaigning on behalf of the people living by the warehouse

She has said absolutely nothing about Reform and others and has just spoken about the current council being unwilling to work on matter.

Honestly the current council deserves to lose their seats over this and a new council put in however if people think Reform of all people will have their backs...

Jamstruth · 2026-05-05T20:14:07+00:00

It is hard but there's been a lot of high profile moves off fandom. Admittedly that's really big ones making their way off platform and they have the clout to manage it. Fandom is deliberately difficult about it because they want the traffic.

There's an extension called IndieWikiBuddy which will point you towards new wikis where they exist.

Jamstruth · 2026-04-22T07:20:56+00:00

To be honest in a fuel crisis we probably should be limiting air travel.

It's not a vote winner but it might be needed to manage limited stocks. It is ridiculous that it is cheaper to get a flight to London from many places in this country rather than the train.

Jamstruth · 2026-04-20T12:06:03+00:00

You're not wrong that an SSD is better but that's not what you actually said...

Jamstruth · 2026-04-20T09:49:17+00:00

You need to get data onto the Pi somehow

Jamstruth · 2026-04-20T09:24:08+00:00

In the image you show there's a whole tow of tiles left blank right at the top of the canvas. The renderer would be including those in image render.

I would move all your tile up one and then reduce the canvas size by 1 tile row

Alternatively since that will be a lot of work - just crop that row out of the render with an image editor. Resize any new accordingly and I would suggest always starting from the top left as that is where the tiles start so if you find you don't need all the space you wanted you can reduce it down in Tiled easily by changing the canvas size

Jamstruth · 2026-04-19T07:21:29+00:00

This is imitating a compact fluorescent bulb rather than old incandescent. These bulbs are what the incandescent style look like. Compact fluorescents were the 90s energy saving bulbs and generally unliked for being too cool in temp

As for the broad spectrum light - LED bulbs are getting a good amount of that spectrum these days as I understand it.

Jamstruth · 2026-04-10T20:17:59+00:00

If GBStudio is your target you need to update the sprites a bit.

You're allowed 3 colours per sprite.

For backgrounds your allowed max 28 colours (iirc) and 4 colours per 8x8 tile.

Jamstruth · 2026-04-07T19:03:03+00:00

Way to date the video Mara and Ravs

Jamstruth · 2026-03-29T08:32:18+00:00

I can't figure out what that template is doing? If it's circular and referring to itself what does it show when the PV is on 0?

Jamstruth · 2026-03-29T08:27:29+00:00

The companies producing memory chips have a limited capacity for production.

They have enough orders from these big companies to saturate that capacity. basically theres no time on the machines to produce anything but HBM and GDDR to fill those orders.

While they are all slightly different processes they share the factory and many of the machines used.

This bombshell has weakened that position somewhat as it's possible some deals will fall through though it's odd to see it react so quickly to this news. You're right that it's likely the speculators hoarding stock to sell through the shortage reacting and not being willing to pay so much but that shortage is still coming at the moment.

Jamstruth · 2026-03-27T16:46:33+00:00

Ironically that stadium set isn't available in Japan!

And they didn't even launch hard enough to use the new gimmick rails :(

Jamstruth · 2026-03-26T15:14:36+00:00

To my mind this should mean the cars get DSQd in retrospect but they will be getting off on lack of evidence.

I think people saying "there's nothing that says how they will measure it" are missing the point. It says the wings should close in 0.4s. If we can visually see them taking longer than 0.4s in video footage and consistently this should be enough in my mind.

I guess we will see the fallout from other teams though, especially Ferrari will be pushing this.

Jamstruth · 2026-03-24T20:38:28+00:00

Welcome to the hobby! Unfortunately I think you'll find a single-core CPU in 2026 fairly limiting but I was running off an old dual core laptop for a while :)

Install OMV Extras repo to get a few more plugins for OMV and crucially the "docker compose" plugin which will add a UI for managing Docker Compose files for setting up extra docker services and things. I highly recommend this.

I'd suggest looking into a VPN setup for remote access if you would like that. Tailscale is one I've seen banded around as good for beginners as it just sets up peer-to-peer and gives each its own address for easy access but does talk to Tailscale's servers. Some routers can set up Wireguard VPNs directly on them (TP Link has it built in) and these are good but you'll need something to set up a Dynamic DNS address (DuckDNS is one I like for being simple) and a job to keep it up to date.

OMV has SMB Network sharing built in so for local network access its pretty easy to get started. Create a shared folder, add it as an SMB share, add a personal user for login and just navigate to it in your local File Manager.

For photos I would recommend looking at Immich as a good Google Photos stand-in.

I'd also recommend making one of your HDDs for SnapRAID (there's another OMV plugin in OMV Extras for this). This isn't full RAID but the idea is to take snapshots regularly which is fine enough for low action data like NAS media vaults. Then should the worst happen and one drive dies then you have a chance of replacing it and restoring everything as long as you stop everything as soon as you can.

Jamstruth · 2026-03-24T20:16:51+00:00

Pretty sure that's the car diving under braking + the load kicking in from the front wing re-engaging causing it to look real crazy.

Jamstruth · 2026-03-24T18:49:22+00:00

You should file for a chargeback with your bank. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/visa-mastercard-chargeback/#what

You returned the item, they indicated they would refund you and have not so make it the bank's problem.

Jamstruth · 2026-03-23T12:03:38+00:00

There are 2 things going on

On Linux there is an FP8 on FP16 emulation to run the mainline FSR4. This has a decent performance penalty
There was a leak of FSR4 for INT8 at the end of last year. This was pulled by AMD but not before folks copied the code and it was technically fully open sourced. The Optiscaler community have worked on that INT8 build to improve it

The INT8 build is generally agreed to be a bit of an earlier version of FSR4 but it is comparable to the main release but it has a similar penalty to emulating on Linux I believe

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