Ceph is a high availability way to store your data. I really love that solution and how it works. It’s a real good alternative to high cost disks storage. With some colleges of eNovance, we’re currently participating to the Ceph Day today in London (http://www.inktank.com/CEPHdays/). I’m very excited to be here, as I wanted to put in production Ceph, 4-5 years ago (when it was released as experimental in Linux Kernel).

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I’ve never really been interested in NAS solutions as I’ve always made my own server and installed what I needed manually. In addition I always thought that it was closed sources since a friend show me I was wrong. He definitively convinced me and I bought a Synology DS713+ last week. It’s really easy to use, brings a lot of features and the biggest point : it’s an open system. I mean that you can have root access on a busy box and do what you want.

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I recently read a post (on Korben’s blog) regarding a command called bd to go back to a directory from you current full path. It permits to do more than that ! In fact this is a simple shell script, but it really helps when you’re in a long subfolder list. For example if you reside in ‘/home/user/project/src/org/main/site/utils/file/reader/whatever’ and want to change to ‘/home/user/project/test’, then try ‘bd p`/test. If you want to see all the possibilities, you can look at the main site project.

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I recently needed to install a simple translation tool that helps on follow the translation activity of a project. Pootle answered my requests very well and that’s why I created a documentation to deploy it. It’s written in Python and use Django. Here is my Pootle tutorial.

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As said in a previous post, I’m going to get Internet through FTTH (Fiber To The Home). Unfortunately I won’t get a fixed IP like I currently have with my ADSL provider. It reminds me Internet 10 years before, when I needed to play with dyndns or no-ip to be able to connect to my house ISP. The story is now repeating but as I got real DNS instead, I need to send the modifications to my DNS Registrar instead.

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As you can see, I write more and more posts on LXC. The latest thing I worked on, was how to convert a host/vm to a LXC container. I needed to write a script for it as I didn’t find what I needed. The script will remove unneeded elements in a Debian system, removing folders (dev,proc,sys), recreate devices and configure etc files. You can find more informations by following the link.

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