A week ago, my file server didn’t start anymore. After attaching screen and keyboard, the following message appread: error: file not found. grub rescue> After trying to reinstall grub by booting from a live cd, the problem still existed. It wouldn’t boot. Since everybody fixes his grub by reinstalling and reconfiguring it, I missed an [...]
Grub2 can’t load stage2
http://www.miraculum.ch/2011/11/02/grub2-cant-load-stage2/
Cant Mount Samba Share More Than Once
On my samba server I had the problem, that just one user at the time could access the share. I had security=user activated. The log file under /var/log/samba/log.smbd said at the last line: smbd_open_once_socket: open_socket_in: Address already in use (Die Adresse wird bereits verwendet) I googled it and stumbled over a very different topic describing [...]
http://www.miraculum.ch/2011/08/06/cant-mount-samba-share-more-than-onc/
Mounting Failure Because of 32bit Limit
Recently I set up a Debian Squeeze on a 20TB RAID5 fileserver. When I tried to set up the xfs file system with partman, the following message appeared: Der Versuch, ein Dateisystem vom Typ xfs auf /dev/sda als /srv einzubinden, ist fehlgeschlagen. or in english: The attempt to mount a file system with type xfs [...]
http://www.miraculum.ch/2011/07/30/mounting-failure-because-of-32bit-limit/
RAID0 Performance Test
Recently I had to compose a file server for high load LAN read access. My first thought was to implement a RAID 0 over 4 harddisks. I took a dual core 2.5GHz CPU and 2GB of RAM. I attached four 500GB SATA drives to the mainboard and then I installed Debian 6 Squeeze on a [...]
http://www.miraculum.ch/2011/07/27/raid0-performance-test/
vsftpd with mysql backend on Debian Squeeze
Hi there Yesterday I had to set up an ftp server using a mysql database as a storage for the user credentials. The first barrier was to choose the optimal ftp server. Actually I didn’t search long for comparizons between the different options. I just took the one, I empirically thought to be the best. [...]
http://www.miraculum.ch/2011/04/05/vsftpd-with-mysql-backend-on-debian-squeeze/