Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question I have a personal fileserver at home with 6 HDs: 1 500 GB one for the OS 1 4 TB one for temporary … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 5 years ago. Improve this question I am running ubuntu 16.04 server and need to store files for a samba file server on a software raid. There are 4 … Read more
This question already has answers here: Closed 10 years ago. Possible Duplicate: Linux’s best filesystem to work with 10000’s of files without overloading the system I/O I have an 240gb image store of approximately 1.5 million entries. About half of these entries are image files (4 to 100kb) and the other half of these entries … Read more
How can I add a menu entry in grub 2 for an os on a btrfs partition? Currently update-grub does not detect an os on a btrfs partition. Answer The answer might be too ubuntu specific, I apologise for that. To add a menu entry, you have to edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom. Append the following to the … Read more
The server disks are configured as follows: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, /dev/sdd are ZFS zraid2 (using ZFS On Linux) /dev/sde1 is xfs /boot partition. /dev/sde2 is swap. /dev/sde3 is btrfs (holds everything else). I rebooted my server after updating a few packages, including zfs. Now, when it boots, it goes to the grub selection menu as … Read more
I recently started experiencing problems when running mv on my ReadyNAS 312 system. It appears the call blocks immediately, i.e. when I run strace on it it appears to get stuck before doing much: open(“[…]”, O_RDONLY|O_NOFOLLOW) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0666, st_size=287873154, …}) = 0 open(“[…]”, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, …}) = 0 … Read more
I’ve added a device to my existing Btrfs file system recently, but it doesn’t report the new device as having even allocated any space for the data. Take a look: Before I started: # btrfs fi show / Label: ‘LINUX’ uuid: f0b4d012-91d8-43bd-90b5-e398a012ccff Total devices 1 FS bytes used 126.72GiB devid 1 size 272.40GiB used 128.03GiB … Read more
I am using a NetGear ReadyNAS machine as a NAS for our server. The server is a linux CentOS 6.6. The server is run using Rocks cluster, with all our users’ home directories located on the NAS. My understanding is that the home directories are automounted to /home when a user logs on. Recently we … Read more
I’m currently planning to revamp a “computer”. Using the term “computer” because I’m not sure what it’s role exactly is… It runs Ubuntu (17.10 / artful), it’s being used as multi-seat desktop for two users, it stores about 1.5 TB of data (documents, images, music), it serves as media center and nfs4 server and it … Read more
The Synology in question has a RAID6 configured via mdadm which features a BTRFS filesystem mounted to /volume1. This path was mounted into a Debian chroot. The unmount was configured in the chroot stop script but for some obscure reason did not work (no error message). Now the chroot was deleted and with it the … Read more
