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David Stephens

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David Stephens's personal blog at davidstephens.uk covers systems and programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Ansible-NAS”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2020–2020first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its post on Ansible-NAS, a DIY network-attached storage setup built from Ansible playbooks. The only comment cites it as a reference alongside its ZFS support.

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Personal site of David Stephens, a British technologist living in London.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Ansible-NAS
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. While I'm quite new to the DIY NAS, I have been running a FreeNAS instance for about a year and finally decided to switch to Ansible-NAS[1] about 6 months ago. It has all the features I'd want and seamlessly supports ZFS as my filesystem without standing in the way (since it's all just Ansible playbooks) [1] https://davidstephens.uk/ansible-nas/

    Comment linking /ansible-nas/

    on “A modular, extensible DIY NAS”
  2. Submitted Ansible-NAS: An Open Source Home Server Solution (2019) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Ansible-NAS as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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