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Re: Back on Track / Beta Testing RH
From
phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to
poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, January 09, 2025 19:41:52
Re: Re: Back on Track / Beta Testing RH
By: poindexter FORTRAN to nelgin on Tue Jan 07 2025 06:46 am
> configs, in retrospect I should have created new VMs and blown the old
> ones away... :(
*mumbles something about "cattle, not pets"*
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poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, January 26, 2025 16:35:52
Re: Re: Back on Track / Beta Testing RH
By: poindexter FORTRAN to nelgin on Wed Jan 08 2025 11:26 am
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> > Back in the old days, we'd just create a 1gb file and leave it on the
> > file system. Run out of space? Delete it and revel in your added disk
> > space. Sort of a poor-man's LVM. :)
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> ne> That's kind of odd, but I guess it's one way to get some space back.
>
> Mind you, this was back in the SunOS/early Solaris days before LVM, when
> adding disk space usually meant adding another disk and splicing it into
> the filesystem somewhere.
ZFS FTW thesedays IMO. Home Built NAS setup.
ISCSI JOBO, Mounted on target servers. Expand as needed.
Full Mirror of the OS in ZFS, can tollerate full disk loss on any of the volumes, including boot drive.
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poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to
Mrnet on Monday, January 27, 2025 08:12:40
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Mr> ZFS FTW thesedays IMO. Home Built NAS setup.
Mr> ISCSI JOBO, Mounted on target servers. Expand as needed.
Mr> Full Mirror of the OS in ZFS, can tollerate full disk loss on any of
Mr> the volumes, including boot drive.
Nice. I've heard lots of good things about ZFS, not in a place to use it
(yet). My servers are all running on raid-nothing with a NAS NFS share
for data. I've got 2 backups, one is a file copy of the BBS VM, the
other is a full system backup and VM-level backup (fingers crossed)
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From
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poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 03:00:31
Re: Re: Back on Track / Beta Testing RH
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mrnet on Mon Jan 27 2025 08:12 am
Interesting. Yeah, I'm looking at ways to setup tiers of storage.
Some things need to be online all the time - for access - others can be turned off to save power and wear and tear on the disks.
One of the problems with using a single server for the bulk of my storage, is that server has to be on all the time and it's quite loud when it contains all those drives.
So I'm thinking about building a small fanless as possible, NVME storage server, with a couple large "BULK" drives to use as "Hot" Data, then potentially using scripts - wake on lan - etc, to trigger another bulk storage server to come online and accept a backup dump, then turn off.
I'm sure there's multiple ways to do something like that, just have to think about it a bit more, & of course collect the funds to buy the toys.
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Mrnet on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 00:20:36
Re: Re: Back on Track / Beta Testing RH
By: Mrnet to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jan 29 2025 03:00 am
> contains all those drives.
> So I'm thinking about building a small fanless as possible, NVME storage
> server, with a couple large "BULK" drives to use as "Hot" Data, then
> potentially using scripts - wake on lan - etc, to trigger another bulk
> storage server to come online and accept a backup dump, then turn off.
> I'm sure there's multiple ways to do something like that, just have to think
stuff nowadays uses such little power. you can get the system with the fans. you can leave it on all the time. you don't need to power it down.
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From
poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to
Mrnet on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 06:31:45
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Mr> problems with using a single server for the bulk of my storage, is that
Mr> server has to be on all the time and it's quite loud when it contains
Mr> all those drives. So I'm thinking about building a small fanless as
Mr> possible, NVME storage server
I like the idea of NVMes for online storage and louder nearline
storage. There used to be enterprise systems that would groom your
data, moving infrequently accessed data to slower drives, and
ultimately to WORM drives for archival access.
I have 5 2tb drives, and the drive head seeking sounds are driving me
crazy. I should try to justify replacing them with SSD for... (checks IT
excuse list) Increased MTBF, lower thermal footprint and decreased
power consumption.
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From
MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to
poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 16:25:11
Re: Re: Back on Track / Beta Testing RH
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mrnet on Wed Jan 29 2025 06:31 am
> I have 5 2tb drives, and the drive head seeking sounds are driving me
> crazy. I should try to justify replacing them with SSD for... (checks IT
> excuse list) Increased MTBF, lower thermal footprint and decreased
> power consumption.
why would you even have 5 2tb drives in this day and are? is your company cheap?
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