I have recently acquired a new computer without an operating system, and I wish to install Oracle Enterprise Linux version 9.1 on it. The ISO file required for the installation is located on an NFS file server, accessible through a network infrastructure. The hardware boots using uEFI, and I have a USB disk-on-key containing Ubuntu…
AutoFS is a powerful tool that allows for mount-on-demand functionality in Linux, reducing the chances of any negative effects when rebooting Windows running file services. In this article, we will focus on how to correctly connect AutoFS to a Windows share, without covering advanced features such as dynamic maps or special cases with different mappings….
Introduction Since Oracle GI version 11.2.0.3, Oracle have provided a clustered file-system called ACFS, based on the underlined technology Oracle ASM. This technology has provided a reliable-enough, although not free from bugs, clustered file-system, while Oracle OCFS2 (which had its own cluster framework: O2CB) has been abandoned and left to die. ACFS was a good-enough…
A disclaimer: I use OEL for server-use when I can. A long support window, an enterprise environment, and yes, a very low rate of changes within the life cycle of the operating system makes it a very good candidate to hold services I do not want to fuss around, correcting configuration files on update or…
I have been using NextCloud for a long while now. It is a smart solution, and although I do not like its agent (I’ve had many problems with it around Hebrew file names on multiple types of operating systems, which never matured enough for a full bug description and details) – for an easy access…
As part as my efforts of reducing the management overhead of multiple systems – much like the rest of the world – I am in a long process of migrating all my workload from virtual machines, each dedicated to a single or a small number of related services, to a container-based solutions. While containers are…
