Posts made by marcinozga

I've heard of people getting upped to 40TB once reaching 10TB. I was really close to testing that, but apparently Microsoft thinks we (ab)use the service.

Not really. I'll do it in a few years when it's time to upgrade disks. But most of that will end up in Amazon Cloud Drive soon.

@dafyre said:

Now the real question: Can you make the adjustment without having to wipe the existing data and restore from backups?

Recordsize property yes, zfs set recordsize=1M bacon, ashift no, you need to recreate the pool. I'm guessing recordsize change won't affect allocated data. So wiping and restoring is probably a valid approach.

Looks like somebody did that already:
http://louwrentius.com/zfs-performance-and-capacity-impact-of-ashift9-on-4k-sector-drives.html

And apparently using large_blocks feature and 1MB record size should eliminate allocation overhead.

That sounds right. I wonder how performance degrades if ashift is set to 9, effectively forcing 4K disks to be written as 512b.

I have RAIDZ2 pool of 10x 3TB disks. So I should have about 24TB usable space (or about 21.8TiB). I'm missing 1.66TiB and I can't figure out where. Here's output of zpool list:

root@storage:/ # zpool list
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
bacon 27.2T 22.7T 4.57T - 19% 83% 1.00x ONLINE -

and here's zfs list:

root@storage:/ # zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
bacon 17.3T 2.84T 17.3T /mnt/bacon

This is on FreeBSD 10.2. All units above are in TiB. No snapshots, no quota, no reservations.

So I just realized, that I can't download my data from Onedrive in bulk in excess of 4GB. Individual files are fine, but that's another limitation. Crap. I just canceled auto-renewal, my subscription expires on Nov 21, I guess I'll be doing a lot of clicking in the next 2.5 weeks.
Amazon Drive users, are there any limits you're aware of? File size limit? Number of uploaded files at once? Download limits?

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller Right. My question was more along the lines of does it Sync files like Drop Box?

With DropBox when I log into the client from another computer, it immediately starts downloading everything... I'd rather have something that will just let me keep dumping files into it, or download just the ones I need.

The app doesn't sync anything, it just allows you to upload and download.

"CLOUD DRIVE IS EXPERIENCING PROBLEMS.
Unfortunately Cloud Drive is not responding at the moment. We are working on this and Cloud Drive will be back as soon as possible."

This is what I get at Amazon Cloud Drive page. Apparently, a lot of folks are probably migrating

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller How much is storage on Amazon?

Amazon Drive is $59.99 a year, unlimited too.

https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive_changes/
It gets better, how do they know what people are actually storing? Wasn't the content suppose to be encrypted? Why are they looking at people's files?
I knew better when I signed up, so most of my data was encrypted before uploading, but this makes me not want to do any business with Microsoft ever again.

That's a real bummer. I have close to 9TB data there, now I have to figure out where to move it. But the move is on par with Logmein. In the end, it's Microsoft that's losing a customer.
Amazon, here I come.

Call the number and see if Indian guy answers, that wants to remotely fix the issue. At that point you should know the drill, you could play along for some fun and record the session.

I just received identical email. Not worth the time to even fill the web form.

@Reid-Cooper said:

This is ridiculous. Of all companies, someone like Experian should have incredible security measures in place.

Their security measures are a joke. A few years ago I tried to obtain annual credit report for my wife, and couldn't do it online. I had to verify her identity over the phone. So I called one of the credit bureaus, and pretended to be my wife. The only questions they asked me was about some credit cards she had. And apparently I did a crappy job faking female voice, because at the end of the call the guy call me sir.
I can only imagine that a bit of social engineering, and someone convinced some of theirs (not the brightest) employees to install some malware. Mission accomplished.

Getting ready to head home. Somehow I convinced my wife to rebuild our home storage/media server. That's going to be interesting watching her gut the old one and build a new one.

Total Finder no longer works. Perhaps it's a good thing, I need to get rid of some of the file managers, I just use too many.
I hope NFS works without issues, I'm rebuilding my storage server this weekend and I'm ready to ditch AFP and SMB.

@Dashrender said:

Without the credit agencies, how do other countries do credit checks?

My country of origin, Poland, has credit agencies. I wasn't really aware of the fact, as I have never applied there for a credit. One thing that differentiate it from US credit agencies is that it's impossible to get a credit without permanent job. Here, anybody with decent credit score can at least get a credit card - I don't know about other loans, but I expect that with the exception of mortgage, nobody is really asking for proof of income or employment.

Offering credit monitoring to affected customers is really like putting band aid on ruptured artery. Credit monitoring agencies are slow to detect anything, and can't prevent anything fraudulent. I had one year after Home Depot or Target breach, it took them over a month to notify me that I opened new credit card, or there was no reaction at all when additional credit cards were compromised.
What they need to offer is free credit freeze for life.

@dafyre said:

@marcinozga Spin up XenServer on your NUC and then try to get adTran going on it. If it works, great! If not, switch to another Hypervisor.

That's what I'm probably going to do.