ZFS on CentOS

First we need to add the ZFS on Linux repository to our system by installing a zfs-release package as shown below: $ sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://archive.zfsonlinux.org/epel/zfs-release-1-3.el6.noarch.rpm $ sudo yum install zfs Once, zfs has been installed, we can create a storage pool. There’re many RAID configuration to choose from, and I’m not going to get into it. However, if you want to learn more, you can read this ZFS Administration article which explains in great detail about ZFS RAID(Z)....

October 8, 2013 · 1 min · 144 words · kenno

E: Internal Error, No file name for libapt-pkg4.12

When I tried to update an Ubuntu (12.04) machine with the usual apt-get command, this error message came up: Reading this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2045321), one way to fix it is to download liapt-pkg4.12 and re-install it: This seems did the trick.

October 3, 2013 · 1 min · 40 words · kenno

Turn color on for git status

The following command will update the Git’s global configuration to set the color.ui to true. $ git config --global color.ui true Ref: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/10434

September 26, 2013 · 1 min · 23 words · kenno

Changing ZFS pool to use disk ID instead of disk assignment

This what I have: # zpool status pool: tank state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 sdb ONLINE 0 0 0 sdc ONLINE 0 0 0 sdd ONLINE 0 0 0 To convert the pool to use disk’s ID instead of device files such as /dev/sda, we need to export the storage pool. # zpool export tank After this command is executed, the pool tank is no longer visible on the system....

September 20, 2013 · 1 min · 162 words · kenno

FreeBSD configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

If you get this error message on a FreeBSD host, you may need to reinstall p5-XML-Parser.

July 24, 2013 · 1 min · 16 words · kenno