Hi I have an external node running in my Lan and I would like to create a VM install start9 with electrs.
The reason I want to do this is because I ran out of disk space and I would like to use 2 external 1T SSD. Maybe I will buy one in the future, but I wouldn’t like to do it now.
Is there a way to do this? I sshed my s9 instance but could not find a electrs.conf. I found a config.yaml though, but not sure if it’s used by electrs. At least I could not find an example in their github with the keys shown in my file.
So, I think in general it would be cool to have this flexibility to allow services in different hosts to communicate. If not possible I will probably buy a 4T nvme and use on my main computer.
Hi Curly, can you explain more what you want to do? Do you want to run the bitcoind node in the VM install? Or just run electrs on the VM install and connect it to your existing bitcoin node?
Can you create the StartOS VM install, install and configure electrs, then connect it to the node? Should be no need to play with the yaml files on StartOS.
I have a mac mini M1 running core full node wiht configured rpc. The blocks and chainstate are stored on an external 1T SSD.
Now I created a VM with Start9 and installed Electrs, but it says the bitcoin core needs to be installed and it will not work because core is a required dependency. There are no options for me to specify the host and rpc credentials of my core node.
The problem is I have limited disk space and electrs requires a full node. I tried to combine the 2 SSD and form a RAID in MacOS, but it worked only for a year or two. One of the SSD became problematic and the VM would not start.
The current version of StartOS 0.3.5~1 is designed for users to use a single (as large as possible) drive for services and data.
This means you cannot keep the blockchain data somewhere else and access it successfully.
Most users have a great experience with a 2TB SSD (4TB would be even better), where they can store a full Bitcoin node as well as many other services such as Nextcloud and Vaultwarden just to name a few.