Author: Jim Blaich

The typical suggestion is to reinstall zfs. If you try and that doesn't resolve the issue then try editing the /etc/modprobe.d/zfs.conf file to remove the options zfs_arc_min= option.

This does not appear to be isolated to a specific service provider. I've seen this happen on comcast.net and on gmail.com. It does appear to have to do at least with Outlook (not 2019 specifically) and Thunderbird. When a user tries to access their remote email folders via Outlook, Outlook retrieves only a portion of the folders. One recommendation in the past that I don't adhere to is that you should just skip your favorite email client (Thunderbird or Outlook) and just use the web browser as all the folders are seen there. One issue with that is that if your folders aren't local you can't search them (how do you search in folders you can't see?) nor can you manage the emails themselves. When I was researching this my…

Because the Raspberry Pi uses an ARM based CPU some people think that Proxmox can't be run on that CPU architecture. The reason is that the Proxmox developers themselves have not released anything official. This is true. There is one developer however that did provide everything necessary to get Proxmox running on a Raspberry Pi. My implementation wasn't difficult to set up. The Web UI runs flawlessly. Containers install with ease. Each template provided for various distributions all seem to work. I have five containers running on the 8gb version of the Raspberry Pi 4. They are: Fedora 34, Ubuntu 21.04, Arch, openSUSE 15.3, and Rocky Linux. At 512mb of RAM for each container they consume less than 2gb of RAM combined. This is not to say that the implementation…

I've been working on getting SSHFS working to connect to a remote system via an entry in the /etc/fstab. I've had some success on other systems for different use cases. I was able to get it working on those so I thought I'd try it again on the one computer that has always seemed to give me issues. This computer has the ZFS filesystem comprised of RaidZ2 with 8 drives. It's been working fine after many reboots over the past couple of months. Today after a reboot it stopped mounting the ZFS file system. When I rebooted I watched the computer as it was going through the boot process and I noticed that it displayed a message indicating that it failed to mount the ZFS filesystem. The computer was up…

I'm going to just lay out some general ideas. This post isn't about giving you commands that you can replicate. It's about giving you the clue to understanding what Proxmox & Linux is doing. Shrinking is something that we all will have a need to do one way or the other simply because we always over provision space in a Windows VM. The issue with shrinking the space for an environment such as Proxmox is not well discussed. Notice I didn't say well documented? The reason I used the word discussed is because when you go looking for support you are often never given the little tidbit that would make it clear for you what is required. I've read the Proxmox forums and searched google far and wide and all…

I've never been busier. I've started a second business with a partner. This is a hosting service. The process has been long. Lots of investment in equipment and time. Much of my time now is going to implementing services, security, upgrades, and configuration -- and much more. We've accomplished forming the LLC, getting our business license, have rental space, have a number of servers. A big part of it is keeping track of all the tasks that need to be done such as setting everything up, tracking the work, and determining which of us can do what piece of the puzzle. The office space has 2 1gb fiber runs. We are running another one that minimally will be double the fiber speed currently in place. The fiber providers are indicating…

I've recently set up 4 proxmox configurations and have had successful and mixed results virtualizing previous hardware installs. Virtualizing previous hardware installs means that I've taken an existing Windows computer and used a software tool to copy the drive in full and made a special file out of it that I then copied over to the proxmox server itself and converted to an file format that proxmox understands and then I imported that into a virtual machine configuration. After doing that I was successful at using proxmox to boot that and run it as if it were on the actual hardware. The conversion process takes a while and configuring it after it has booted also takes some time. Once done you'd remote desktop into it and use it as if…

I hear on podcasts like from Ask Noah that Lenovo laptops are killer. He really means that a specific model or two are killer. All the rest of them are pretty much junk. I don't recommend anyone purchase then. Over the years of supporting and fixing computers I have had a lot of experience with Lenovo laptops. Years and years ago they were pretty good products. These past few years have shown me that these are not good products, primarily due to poor craftmanship. It's as if they are trying to produce the worst product they can to get the most money out of the customer. The primary thing that I find at issue are in securing the hinges to the bottom or top bezel. Invariably the screws that hold…

Again, Inuit's support is abhorrent. No adequate explanation of what error 606 is. After some searching I found a post that had been updated 4 days prior that says to just keep trying because their system is having difficulties. These developers need to know that their software has to work all the time without causing issues otherwise users are going to stop using their product and that will hurt the industry as a whole. Who wants to spend all their time trying to work out issue after issue just to get their software working. If I have to fiddle to get your software to work your software doesn't work. This issue was resolved after rebooting windows 10.