Server maintenance at home

January 25, 2009

I’ve been upgrading my home media server to Ubuntu 8.10. I’ve taken the opportunity to reformat in ext3.

So, farewell then ReiserFS. You gave me solid service for years, but what with vendor lock-in and lack of ongoing development, it’s time to move on. I’ve had issues with JFS support in Ubuntu, and XFS has some technical problems, so I’m back to ext3. I hope that in a year or so ext4 will be solid enough to upgrade to.

With 8.10, it has been easier to get Dovecot, tomcat, JSPWiki and mt-daapd up and running. IPv6 worked with no configuration changes. Sadly, netatalk is still useless, as the distributed binary won’t connect to OS X 10.5, so you have to rebuild it from source.

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