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Sometimes you need a place to record all the incantations you go through to make the magic happen. Often, these secret words are so sacred that those who know them jealously guard them, and let no others know their power. But, alas, what I record here is for myself; if you garner some use of it, all the better.

20171225

CEPH and the Local Mount Issue - Deadlocks Galore!!

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I have a multi-terabyte, multi-server Ceph store that deadlocks itself every so often, always during high-write activity.  It has been harro...
20171104

Logitech G920 Steering Wheel on Linux - Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 18

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Yes, it works.  And...well, it's not terrible to make it work, but it was a bitch to find all the missing pieces. For the search engin...
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20161122

pfSense Minimum TTL Adjustment / Fix

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For dealing with situations where your pfSense firewall receives a TTL of 1, you can mangle this in the filtering code on the server.  The k...
20161003

Bind9 and the Mysterious PTR resolution failure

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I run a sort-of cagey DNS setup.  I have a hidden primary that isn't exactly hidden, but is certainly not well-advertised.  Couple this ...
20160808

How to Find an EXT4 Partition...

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So you have a partition table that's a little unorthodox, and maybe is a mix between some NTFS partitions and an extended partition with...
20160321

Port Isolation, VLANs, and Ceph: Lessons Learned

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While configuring a new production Ceph cluster, I ran into problems that could only be described as asinine.  We built all the hardware, in...

Don't Run Ceph+ZFS on Shitty Hardware

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Isn't just the way it goes, when things go to hell at 2 in the morning? And that's what's happened.  But it wasn't the fir...
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