Replacing failed drives in a md array
In a Linux softraid, you may have to replace failed drives. As usual, backups are still needed, but hardware failures can be covered by RAID levels. ...
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3D Prints
The other day, the 3D model I created back in 2016 finally broke. So, as such I created an updated model: For this I am using the same service from my 3D Printing updates ...
Filesystem discard
Now with the prevalence of SSD's for storage, it is important to make sure that the DISCARD operation is used. This is specially true as this can increase the lifetime of your flash storage by reducing the need to re-map blocks by simply marking them as freed. ...
DRBD Preload
This is a continuation to VM disk replication. One of the steps needed for VM disk replication is the need to pre-load the replicated volume. For the project I wrote, we had two mechanisms: ...
VM managed disk replication
Introduction High level overview Deployment Required packages ...
Documenting Architecture Decisions
Context Approach Format Conclusion ...
Alpine Boot
This is a quick note. In Alpine linux you can run start-up scripts by enabling the local service: rc-update add local default When this is enabled, it will run all executable scripts that end with .start on start-up and scripts that end with .stop on shutdown. ...
Y2K38 filesystems
Background What to do xfs ext4 ...
NEW YEAR 2025
This year this Blog would have been up and running for 12 years! Happy new year sticker created by Icon home - Flaticon ...
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