I’ve been trying to find a good use for the second network adapter in my fileserver, and what better than to increase the throughput to the network. Using something called bonding, its possible to combine two physical network adapters into one logical bonded adapter. Using a bonded adapter provides several advantages such as fallover should… Continue reading Network Bonding in Gentoo
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My fileserver, named Felix
Expand JFS Filesystem
I recently bought 2 new 500GB hard drives and am in the process of migrating my RAID array to double its size to 2TB. The current 1TB over 3 drives was 100% full, so it was something that had to be done. The expansion took about 26 hours on my 3ware 9650SE-8LPML controller, which is… Continue reading Expand JFS Filesystem