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
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
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
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
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
