Archive for August, 2014

bcache

Necessity_is_the_mother_of_invention I needed some cheap solution for my slow HDDs in one of MySQL node. The box was limited to 4 HDD slots and the actual configuration w/o RAID 1 stopped working 🙂 At the same time I read about Fedora 20 and found some pretty io mechanism called bcache. It works in a similar […]

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Proxmox customization

How to change default settings and make software raid (mirror and stripe) with GPT. While booting installation: linux ext4 hdsize=10 maxroot=5 swapsize=1 maxvz=1 http://www.jamescoyle.net/how-to/261-proxmox-advanced-install-settings In case your partitions were used with raid you should wipe them (dry :]): wipefs -a /dev/sdb1 # or mdadm –zero-superblock /dev/sdb[1-4] apt-get -y update apt-get -y dist-upgrade START_AT=`parted /dev/sda p […]

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