Switching my NAS from Arch to Debian (or Ubuntu)

UnawareBlaire · November 5

I want to change distros on my NAS and I need to know what problems I might run into doing so.

Everything I run so far is through docker so I should be able to just move over the docker compose files over and be good there.

I have two ZFS drives that are mirrored. Will I run into issues with moving them over?

Also I use an intel arc card for transcoding. Is intel arc support good on debian/ubuntu as it is on arch?

Electronics Wizardy · November 5

Mae sure the ZFS version is the same or newer on the new system.

If its docker yea you should be able to just move over compose scripts.

Arc should work fine on updated versions, I've used my a380 without issues on ubutnu with transcoding support.

Needfuldoer · November 5

Why? What deficiency does Arch have for your use case? That's a lot of work for what sounds like a lateral move.

UnawareBlaire · November 5

18 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Mae sure the ZFS version is the same or newer on the new system.

This is my primary concern. I used zfs-dkms-git from the AUR and while I haven't performed a system update in a while, I imagine Debian being on an older version because Debian things.

Apparently I'm on zfs 2.2.4-1, I just need to see what version the latest versions of Debian and Ubuntu are running.

23 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Why? What deficiency does Arch have for your use case? That's a lot of work for what sounds like a lateral move.

I don't want to deal with resolving conflicts with updating anymore, especially with bleeding edge kernel and ZFS. I could switch to an lts kernel on arch, but at that point I'd rather just switch distros