theres no limits to what you say and no one to piss off though
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no discord for gek, such is life.
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rubs hands
it’s necro time bby. get ur thread ready. wait this is mine…
So. So, so, yeah. I FINALLY got the missing parts!
I pulled 8 GBs out of my PC ( I ain’t using it anyways, and I still got 16 GBs left) and bought 8 more gigs! ATM 8 went into ghekko, and 8 into ghekko-jr (upgrade from 1 to 8 ey 
) But that might change.
Since it’s been a long time , a reminder:
- ghekko: Xeon server, pure ghetto
- ghekko-jr: Athlon II New based NAS sever from HP
I got a nothing fancy PSU, nothing much to say about it. 500W. And I got 2x 4 TB (3.6 actually) that I will stuff the junior with. 
, oof at wording.
Will just do RAID 1 and be done with it, haven’t thought out the upgrade path tho.
So, some pics?
junior being open wide and stuffed
open case surgery
Now, since the hardware part is done (maybe some misc stuff later?) It is time to INSTALL OPENBSD!!!111!!1!1!
And so I did. Now I have 3 OpenBSD boxes at home.
There’s just a small problem, I installed i386 not AMD64… so uh, yeah. That gave me an opportunity to thing about what am I doing.
Here’s what I thought. OpenBSD uses FFS as it’s file system, I barely get by there doing basic stuff (haven’t had the time to read my OpenBSD book yet, what with the job and Masters) and well, I know for a fact that OpenBSD sacrifices some speed for security. But these are LAN only servers, so why?
So I am thinking to just use Linux. I am much more familiar with that, there’s more info on them out there, and heck, much better variety of file systems to choose are available.
My idea atm is Debian. Why? Coz I run CentOS on my VPS, and don’t get me wrong it’s totally fine, just that I don’t like the packaging situation.
You may (more likely not tho) ask:
Why not Arch?
Well, Arch was really (surprisingly so) stable for me, I just don’t wanna thinking about my servers, and Debian is one of those stable, 2-3 years release cycle distros, so it works out.
Feel free to suggest me other shit tho.
I will leave the old ass IBM ThinkCentre running OpenBSD tho, if I ever wanna play with it tho.
Anyways, that’s basically it. I’ll research a bit more on Debian and NFS and bare git and what not before I proceed, plus I come tired as fuck from work (1.2k lines changed today lmao 50/50 add delete) so I don’t do much during work week anyways.
Cya in another 70+ days lmao?
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You are missed my friend. Dont be too much of a stranger.
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Debian and Ubuntu LTS are 5 year support cycle, CentOS is 10 year support cycle, OpenSUSE is 3-4 year support cycle. Debian is my go-to for server stuff.
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Very nice debian is good its just a bit aged but I dont think you need bleeding edge huh?
why is it resyncing?
Just MD things.
Unless you tell it to assume clean. It runs a full sync on an empty volume.
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so you could make a mirror from an existing drive with data on it without losing whats there?
Maybe
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You are the Soviet Aremis
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it’s all x86 
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wait xbox360 is PPC
FUUUUUUUU
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and it’s a great success!
now, since it’s 4 AM, time to sleep a bit. tomorrow I wanna set up git and start the file transfer!
Also more pics after bit of computer move.
hey, gui shit works too
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Moved both servers to same desk as battle station.
Soldering station is now roomy again.
All thanks to this smol boi.
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Noticed that ghekko <-> ghekko-jr was 1Gbps while redarch <-> ghekko* was 100 Mbps
Turns out my PC had autoneg off and stuck in 100 Mbps half-duplex…
Thanks bro, for quick analysis
One 
later
Hooray! 
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so huh, ethtool is, ofc, not persistent, so yeah, had to change it in NetworkManager. 
But there, just changing auto-negotiation didn’t work, so I straight up just told it to use full duplex and 1Gbps
