Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS (2024)
ethanpil
41 points
11 comments
June 16, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
yjftsjthsd-h
If you already have a ZFS pool, I'd probably personally just throw on zfsbootmenu and a ZFS-root Alpine install. But, this is cooler and does have advantages:)
cassianoleal
> root/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key and root/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub and root/root/.ssh/authorized_keys for obvious reasons. What are the _obvious_ reasons for the NAS root to have an SSH key?
seemaze
Previously -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42428722
moondev
Reminds me of https://github.com/poettering/diskomator
MuffinFlavored
I'd like the see the author achieve the same setup but with Nix