Homelab A tale of networked storage, asymmetric routing and what not to do when a drive fails My lab network has a centralised storage server, a Dell R510 with a mismash of drives, running Debian 10 and ZFS. So far it has shared this storage over NFS, but that has turned out to cause issues which is why I opted to change the sharing medium to my
Linux Raspberry Pi + Arch Linux ARM + bcache + iSCSI + LVM cache + VDO + KVM + ZFS Yep, that's how mad I've got during this lockdown. What gave the ideaAbout two months ago, an update to the Raspberry Pi OS (ex Raspbian) added Microsoft's VS Code package repository and its corresponding GPG key to the system. There's discussion about it over at r/linux (tread lightly in
Homelab My take on a Raspberry Pi kiosk dashboard Like everyone and their mother-in-law, I have a local Grafana instance with a bunch of dashboards filled with graphs and bar gauges about things in my network. I have a desktop network rack with space on the top for a spare 24" monitor I have, so I thought I'd make
Networking 6U desktop network rack build My "core" LAN network consists of two rackmounted switches and a router. After moving into a new apartment, I didn't want to keep them in a zero-ventilation closet on the other side of the apartment, so I thought I'd put my massive desk to good use and build a small
Homelab Installing Debian in LVM on an USB drive (and EFI booting it!) This post is largely based on Will Haley's post over here. I've combined it with various Google searches to show how I built a minimal Debian image, ready to be written to an USB drive and booted off. We'll be using LVM as a middleman in the image to ease
