Tag: storage

• Adding Lots of Storage Pools to Libvirt

  I do not enjoy having subdirectories involved for storing files in libvert. The virt-manager interface is just way too brutal about how you manually add storage pools. After much ranting, I wrote a bash script to add these directories for my VM disk images. 1 #!/bin/bash 2 3 set -e 4 #set -x 5 existing_pools=()…

  jedreynolds

  April 15, 2020

  F/LOSS, fun, Linux, Programming, shell scripting, sysadmin

  libvirt, pool, storage, virsh, virt-manager

• Replacing a loud fan in my home ZFS NAS

  The blue-LED fan I have in my ZFS on Linux NAS is a bit louder than the other fans that I’ve been hoping for. I am going to replace it with a 600rpm fan.   You will notice that I have drilled extra ventilation into the top case panel.   Notice the clear-plastic fan. It…

  jedreynolds

  October 31, 2014

  computing

  cooling, DIY, fan, hardware, Linux, noise, storage, zfs

• Replacing a Four Drives at Once

  I would not have considered this tactic possible, but then I’ve often come from small raid setups or hardware raid setups that are unlikely to want to replace multiple disks at a time. Replacing four at a time!

  jedreynolds

  September 17, 2014

  computing, Linux

  Linux, raid, storage, zfs

• Recommendations for #Linux storage server?

  I’ve got an embedded 800mhz Via system that I’m going to retrofit with a 2TB drive for catching backups. I used to run CentOS 3.5 on there but those days are long gone. I’d rather run a rolling distro…Debian…Arch. I will likely also retrofit it with a CF adapter for the boot device. Likely I…

  jedreynolds

  April 26, 2012

  computing, Linux

  arch, backups, centos, debian, embedded, storage