In a previous post I went through the steps necessary to install MooseFS 1.6.27 on FreeBSD 10.

MooseFS has since then been bumped up to version 2.0.60 but unfortunately the FreeBSD ports are still on 1.6.27. In the future I am planning to look …

Some quick notes on setting up CARP on FreeBSD.

Most of this is based on the FreeBSD Handbook page

1. Add the carp kernel module - edit the file /boot/loader.conf and add the line

carp_load="YES"

^ Make sure that this is done on all hosts To load the module …

These instructions have been tested on a 4GB RAM, 2 vCPUs atlantic.net VPS - nope I don't work for them, but I'm quickly becoming a huge fan

1. Update pkg:

env ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES pkg upgrade

2. Get the ports tree

time portsnap fetch extract

Took about 5 minutes:

110.871 …

In my previous post I demonstrated how to compile Mongo from ports, build a package from the port and then copy that package to another server over SCP to install it.

That worked great and saved us tons of time but it'd be nicer if instead of doing the SCP …

I recently started playing with the cloud services that atlantic.net is providing which include FreeBSD 10.0.

I'm generally very happy with the service (a review coming at a later time) but one minor issue I had was the lack of swap space.

I tried following the instructions here …

Continuing from my last post on installing KVM on CentOS 7, we'll look into installing a non-linux Operating System on CentOS 7 inside KVM. In this example I'll install FreeBSD 10.

Before we install any guest we need to get the list of supported guests - to get that list type …

Just some quick notes on how to set up dnsmasq as both a DHCP and DNS server. Most of the steps are copied from my old post here plus some info I found online: dnsmasq For Easy LAN Name Services dnsmasq on the Gentoo wiki dd-wrt's page on dnsmasq

1 …

This post is a sequel of this one.

This time, I've edited the Ansible hosts (/usr/local/etc/ansible/hosts) and instead of targetting my Ubuntu 14 LTS box I am targetting my FreeBSD 10 one.

Like before I've copied the ssh keys and I'll try to ping it with …

Ansible is a configuration management tool much like Chef and Puppet. The main difference is that Ansible pushes all configuration over SSH, whereas Chef/Puppet/Salt pull configuration using clients installed on the targets. Ansible has only two requirements:

1. SSH

2. Python needs to be installed on the targets

To install …

MooseFS is a distributed file system that works on multiple different platforms including FreeBSD. It has three parts one of which is optional:

1. The MooseFS Master

2. The MooseFS ChunkServers

3. The MooseFS Metalogger (Optional)

The MooseFS master keeps track of all the files and changes on the ChunkServers …