For the record, 100 Mbits is 12.5 Megabytes, or about 12,207 Kibibytes, so you’ll want to limit it to maybe 6,000 Kibibytes for it to be around half.

Hard links are a built-in feature of basically every modern filesystem. The bigger question to me is, why aren’t hard links working for you?

If you’re on mobile, the app Streamyfin for Android and iOS is fantastic. Handles downloads, transcoding, great UI, and it even integrates with additional third-party tools that enhance it further, like Jellyseer.

I don’t use OMV but I do use MergerFS + SnapRAID. Works great so far.

They’re using Plex for friends and JF for themselves, if you read the comment you replied to.

I don’t have backups, but I do have a 14TB parity drive in the DAS, using SnapRAID to update it nightly.

The transfer speed of the USB connection is higher than my ethernet speed, so it never bottlenecks me.

I use an M1 Mac Mini running Asahi Linux with a USB 3.0 4-bay enclosure. Works great so far.

I realize you may already be locked-in on the name, but you should probably be aware that Pine64 have an upcoming pair of ear buds called PinePods as well. So not just another project with the same name, but another FOSS-community project, to boot.

This seems like an awesome project though. As a fellow Rustacean, it excites me to see.