NAS Project
The NAS project was fun. The new motherboard arrived, and, I just used the onboard controllers, with icydock hotswap raid backplanes in the 5.25″ bays, holding 8 12TB nas drives.
I ended up losing room for a drive this way, and it’s significantly slower than I’d hoped, as, I believe the board is splitting the bus up between the onboard SATA controllers, but, it’s enough for now.
I did something interesting with this.
I have the physical machine set up to manage the raw raid device with mdadm, and then using qemu through cockpit I have a virtual machine that it provides that raw device to. On the virtual machine I partitioned it and set up a luks encrypted partition, and then an NFS export on the unencrypted mount. So, you create the device map in /etc/crypttab and the unencrypted mount in /etc/fstab. This gives me all sorts of neat cleanliness.
It’s dog shit slow until I get some better controllers involved, but it works.
I’ve now run out of excuses to organize the files on my machine for a backup process. I’ve been avoiding it for a long time and I’ve got a lot of clutter.
New Car
I traded in my V6 Challenger SXT+ for the V8 Challenger R/T. It’s been a fun car to drive. Picture is in the header. This was an expensive thing to do though. I guess I just needed to do something to prevent me from taking any chances with career changes for a bit, as tempting as it is, as I was about ready to leave for a bit. Got a new hire coming in, and somehow I managed to get fucked on that too after doing my part — but hey, we need the hands. Car payments make bullshit easier to tolerate.
Will and Intent
I’m thinking about expanding my prior entry “On the Riddle of Steel” into a whole series of the same theme. One of the things I wanted to touch on with it lately is the relationship between the maturity of intent and application of will. If you can’t flesh out an intention, then a will is useless and arguably non-existent.