Beppe's Arr Stack41TB MergerFS Media Homelab

Current Stack Status (July 2, 2026) ​

Infrastructure ​

• Storage: 41TB MergerFS pool across 8 NVMe drives (30TB used, 73% capacity)
• RAM: 96GB with aggressive page caching for near-native I/O performance
• GPU: AMD Radeon 780M (RDNA 3) with VCN 4.0 video engine
• Remote: Tailscale mesh VPN at 100.115.21.9

Media Libraries ​

Recent Improvements ​

• MergerFS RAM caching fix (cache.files=auto-full, dropcacheonclose=false)
• SVT-AV1 encoding strategy for maximum compression
• Complete books/audiobooks serving stack
• EmuDeck 2.5.0 inventory documented
• Manga collection migrated to NAMING_STANDARD_V2

Quick Commands ​

# Check running containers
sudo docker ps --format "table {{.Names}}\t{{.Status}}\t{{.Ports}}"

# Pool status
df -h /var/mnt/pool

# Tailscale status
tailscale status

# Start services
cd /home/deck/usenet-media-stack
docker compose up -d

Key URLs (Local) ​

Key URLs (Tailscale Remote) ​

Use the landing pages first:

Direct service links generally use Tailscale Serve HTTPS:

Exception: Transmission/Gluetun is currently direct tailnet only at http://100.115.21.9:9092 because there is no Tailscale Serve mapping for port 9092.

Documentation Highlights ​

• Storage and Remote Access - MergerFS pool, Tailscale setup
• Tdarr Configuration - SVT-AV1 encoding, troubleshooting
• ISO to AV1 Pipeline - Blu-ray extraction with MakeMKV + Tdarr
• Books and Audiobooks Guide - Complete serving stack
• EmuDeck Inventory - ROM collections, emulators
• Performance Tuning - MergerFS caching, Tdarr workers

Built with Bell Labs standards. Deployed via GitHub Actions. Services accessed via Tailscale Serve + Caddy/Authelia.