Vaults of the Machine-Spirit — Storage & Filesystems
The Forge’s data is inscribed across three shrines in accordance with the machine-spirit’s demands: ZFS mirrors on the workstation, ext4 on the VPS and home-shrine, and the sacred snapshots guard against loss.
exampleHost — The Mirror Pool
Section titled “exampleHost — The Mirror Pool”Two Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1 TB NVMe in ZFS mirror.
bpool (mirror, grub2 mode):
| Dataset | Mountpoint |
|---|---|
bpool/nixos/root |
/boot |
Options: ashift=12, autotrim=on, grub2-compatible.
rpool (mirror):
| Dataset | Mountpoint |
|---|---|
rpool/nixos/root |
/ |
rpool/nixos/home |
/home |
rpool/nixos/var/lib |
/var/lib |
rpool/nixos/var/log |
/var/log |
rpool/backup/storage2 |
(zrepl pulls snapshots here) |
Options: ashift=12, autotrim=on.
All datasets carry mountpoint = "legacy" — mounting is orchestrated by boot.nix.
4 GB per disk, encrypted with random keys (randomEncryption = true).
Data Vault
Section titled “Data Vault”/data2: external HDD mounted as ext4 with nofail (absence does not block boot).
Automatic Tending
Section titled “Automatic Tending”services.zfs.autoScrub.enable = true;services.zfs.trim.enable = true;Snapshot Guard (zrepl)
Section titled “Snapshot Guard (zrepl)”exampleHost pulls snapshots from storage2.retrohive.fr into rpool/backup/storage2.
Retention: 7 days × 1 day + 3 months × 30 days.
clochette — The Single Vault
Section titled “clochette — The Single Vault”Disks: /dev/sda, partitioned MBR:
| Partition | Mountpoint | Filesystem |
|---|---|---|
/dev/sda1 |
/boot |
ext2 |
/dev/sda2 |
swap | — |
/dev/sda3 |
/ |
ext4 |
Bound daemon data resides in /srv/docker/ (on /).
Daily Borg backup to storage2.friloux.me.
RogueLeader — The Home Vault
Section titled “RogueLeader — The Home Vault”Disk: /dev/sda, partitioned GPT via disko:
| Partition | Purpose |
|---|---|
| 1 MB | GRUB BIOS boot |
| 4 GB | swap |
| remainder | / ext4 |