NFS Ganesha is a user-mode file sharing server, which supports NFS 3 and 4.x versions and 9P. NFS Ganesha has several interesting plugins that support…
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Stopping the glusterfs volume releases disk sleep process hangs
A quick tip for GlusterFS volume. There are multiple possible reasons for a Linux process to hang in “Disk Sleep” state, which even the KILL…
Repairing damaged backup GPT with gdisk
Problem with network shared storage could lead to a damaged file system or even GPT tables, so the gdisk may help in this case. Here…
Force losetup detach of local file after it became unavailable
Mounting a file as loop devices is simple enough operation! But what if the file just disappears because of the network storage got unreachable? In…
MySQL slave upgrade: Slave failed to initialize relay log info structure from the repository
MySQL slave after upgrade from 5.6.x to 5.7.x may throw the following error: The best solution for this error is to: Master server – mysqldump…
libelf was not found in the pkg-config search path
Building from source under CentOS the user may stumble on some compilation errors and most of them are for missing -devel packages. Here is such…
VBoxManage: error: Failed to initialize COM! NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST (0x80520006)
What an error! And the VirtualBox stopped loading anymore! This error: and here with the GIU, which offers a little bit more information about the…
removing the default kernel in CentOS 8 – remove elrepo kernel
Removing the default kernel aka the loaded kernel in CentOS 8 maybe challenging because the package is protected and cannot be removed by the yum…
Gentoo emerge GO lang failed – atomic_amd64x.go: too many errors
Upgrading GO lang under Gentoo maybe a little bit tricky. The upgrading go lang from 1.13.7 to 1.15.5 failed with strange error: Googling a little…
Booting network installation from ipxe disk using IPMI KVM
There is a project for extended PXE Boot features https://ipxe.org/. This article is not for describing what this project may offer, but to show how…