Monthly Archives: May 2016

Tuning glusterfs for dummies

Posted on 15. May 2016 by bastelfreak

I’m playing with gluster since a few weeks, here is a short tutorial for optimizations I did for a setup with many small files (1-5mb): First we checkout the startup time. Gluster by default offers NFS shares, but I don’t … Continue reading →

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Linux Short Tip: systemd-networkd and DNS servers

Posted on 14. May 2016 by bastelfreak

You maybe have noticed that you can configure DNS servers in your systemd-networkd settings, but these addresses don’t appear in /etc/resolv.conf. You need to enable/start systemd-resolved, this daemon checks global DNS settings in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf, DNS settings for each link from … Continue reading →

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Short Tip: Replacing a failed drive in mdadm softwareraid

Posted on 13. May 2016 by bastelfreak

Sometimes you check your fileserver and your raid looks like this: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md125 : active (auto-read-only) raid6 sdl[1] sdh[7] sdf[5] sdk[2] sdg[6] sdm[8] sdi[0] sdn[10] sde[4] 23441080320 blocks super 1.2 level 6, … Continue reading →

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Doing IPv6 with systemd-networkd – the correct way

Posted on 13. May 2016 by bastelfreak

Understanding the docs: I blogged about IPv6 with systemd-networkd in Arch Linux step by step installation guide and provided a hacky workaround to get a working IPv6 address configured. I read through the docs again and hand a longer discussion … Continue reading →

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Linux Short Tip: Correct IPv6 with ferm firewalling

Posted on 11. May 2016 by bastelfreak

I mentioned ferm in my last post about gluster (an iptables/ip6tables abstraction layer in perl with a nice firewall config). The default rule-set looks like this: Most people attend to C&P that blog and wrap it in domain ip6 {} … Continue reading →

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Short Tip: Setup glusterfs share on Arch Linux

Posted on 11. May 2016 by bastelfreak

I made a detailed tutorial for a Arch Linux installation a few days back. This is a quick follow up post to create a Distributed-Replicated gluster share. The goal is to create a mirror for several linux distributions. A mirror … Continue reading →

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Fixing and improving rspec tests

Posted on 9. May 2016 by bastelfreak

Today I stumbled across our puppet module for gluster. My goal for the next days: modulesync with voxpupuli default settings Fix rspec tests to work with our new test matrix (newer puppet versions and STRICT_VARIABLES=yes) Make a new release for … Continue reading →

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One month in open source projects

Posted on 9. May 2016 by bastelfreak

I undertook a little experiment last April – to contribute to open source projects for 30 days (similar to #blogmonth). The idea was to contribute in a way that it helps the project itself without any personal gain. For example: … Continue reading →

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Arch Linux step by step installation guide

Posted on 5. May 2016 by bastelfreak

I recently created a simple step by step guide to get a basic Arch Linux running on a VPS. Most providers don’t provide standard Arch Linux images but a VNC console + ISO upload solution, this guide is made for … Continue reading →

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OSDC 2016 Talk Recommendations

Posted on 5. May 2016 by bastelfreak

OSDC – The Open Source Datacenter Conference – just happend a few days back. Here is a short list of videos that I can recommend: A Job and an Adventure – Dawn Foster I met Dawn once at Puppetcamp Düsseldorf, … Continue reading →