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My FR arm box to my Netcup box:
Guys, I won't able to let to go one in France DC.
This is from GRA1 DC.
wonder how much money OVH loses with these boxes (when actually using the 250mbit)
The same here. lol
I would guess other than media storage, quite a few would use them just to backup files from other OVH servers. If I didn't already have servers to backup to I would probably grab the cheapest one. OVH is too big to care about a server using 250Mbps anyways.
The U-Boot and its configuration are on a small 2MB flash chip on the server board. You can read this to get more knowledge of the boot process.
It would be very unwise to change anything as this might also break the rescue boot and reinstall process.
Actually, what was more interesting to me and grabbed my attention was the fact that the installer places a 1000kb first partition on the drive which fdisk reports to be 'BIOS boot' ( http://prntscr.com/jxczsh ). I also wonder if this has something to do with options passed to the kernel however wasn't able to mount it yet. It may also be another 'uboot' at the beginning of the drive in case SPI fails. Not sure. Would be cool to find out but not sure I am willing to invest that much time into it.
Cheers!
Inform the FSF? It's not up to OVH's goodwill to provide the sources.
Well this could solve some of my temporary media server storage issues... Wonder how well the OpenMediaVault NFS works, would want to mount it directly in Proxmox.
@Falzo finally got a reply from OVH:
Don't have time to mess with it atm but give it a try if you have time and let us know the outcome
Cheers!
Excellent find. /me looking at the /patches directory.
they keep adding and modifying the page for a week now. the old cheap ones got a disk or ram slapped on and got more expensive. so far no cheaper servers in sight only more expensive ones were added. we'll have to wait until they are finished.
Without instructions or an obvious way to build it's still not really GPL compliant. Users must be able to produce a similar binary...
I am pretty sure this would be OVH's response:
If they cared, in my ticket where I specifically asked for instructions they would have provided some, but as you can see, they them selves said, "There are no instructions unfortunately," so I wouldn't hold your breath. For that matter, they would have also participated in this thread, if they cared.
I am actually surprised they replied to the ticket in the first place.
Cheers!
On the SYS ARM server, using Ubuntu, did the fix to remove the armada kernel. Every time I use apt I get:
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-21-generic Unsupported platform. run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//flash-kernel exited with return code 1 dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: initramfs-tools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)Is there any way to fix this? Can I safely uninstall initramfs-tools?
Well, like i said it's not like they can really avoid it but i see how getting this through the thick skull of some support drone might be hard. Still if they didn't provide sources the FSF wouldn't find this the least bit of funny and OVH is a juicy target to make an example of. Same goes for the lack of instructions. If the that renders whatever they provide virtually non buildable it's sad for them as it's their problem to fix that. Non compliance basically revokes OVHs right to use or distribute the kernel. If they don't like that they shouldn't work with GPL'd code.
as it does not use the 4.4 kernel at all, there is also no need for an initial ram disk. haven't tried, but pretty sure you can remove that alltogether.
I had a first glance into the package. from what I can tell the .config is already in there and there is also a quite interesting folder inside, containing some patches. essentially that's providing some info about their 'development board' and patching stuff for the network driver and so on.
also the tcp.c/.h tinkering mentioned earlier in this thread is in there. yet I did not find something obvious regarding the per connection speed limit. maybe it's somehow hidden like just providing some kind of trigger for QoS on the switch or the like, otherwise there should have been some algo to check on OVH internal/external network.
maybe it even is some kind of weird bug related to their adjustments (which still would not be a reason why only external connections should be affected).
if I have some time to spare during the weekend I am going to try and simply recompile their kernel first to see if that would work as a replacement and what's that doing about the speed limit.
if I see some kind of success I might start digging deeper into it, trying to apply some of the patches to the official kernel (or even a later version) to get an own version to work with and eventually get rid of the speed limit issue.
4TB is back:
https://www.soyoustart.com/ie/order/soYouStart.xml?reference=1804armada02
I tried this too, if you read the error, it's more serious. The 4.4.0 kernel you are trying to use isn't right. I undid mine and stuck with the 4.9 kernel. Funnily enough I was coming back on to see if anyone had managed to get it work with Ubuntu.
did you try to install ubuntu just without ticking the 'use distro kernel' box? at least that works for debian in my case without any further action needed.
as we earlier agreed on the initial idea of installing another kernel from the repos is wrong, as it simply doesn't change anything. there is no grub but u-boot as loader, available kernels needs to be in a specific format which is not provided by the regular packages, so they are simply ignored.
regardless if you install any kernel or not that way, it won't matter nor get used. if you remove the 4.9.58 kernel alltogether it should just net-boot an older version like 4.5.2 , which obviously doesn't have that speed limit issues.
you don't need any other kernel packages from the repo, but instead of purging anything armada related like suggested earlier, you might want to keep the 4.5.2 modules (or reinstall them afterwards)...
I know this thread got really messy and I apologize for it, please try to read again what was written first and how that evolved later on :-)
However, it is worth noting this old kernel has no speed limit, but many other issues instead (including crypto-related trouble, e.g. kernel panics when using luks)
Yes, unfortunately (and I can't remember what) the OVH custom kernel broke something else. It's ok I am only using the box for nextcloud. Would just be nice to open it up! I might do a reinstall and switch to debian
Actually, this is only the case if you setup LUKS on a newer kernel then go backwards. It seems the newer version isn't compatible with the older modules. If you re-initialize (luksFormat) the volume again on the 4.5.2 kernel after modprobing the modules you built, it will work normally and is stable.
I had tried to go from 4.9.2 -> 4.5.2 and it didn't like that much.
Cheers!
Nope, I used LUKS on a running 4.5.2, but upon btrfs formatting a luks-encrypted device, kernel panic.
Interesting, with ext4 I had no issues at all. Are you sure you have the module for brtfs loaded when doing so? Does it error with just formatting the volume w/ brtfs alone?
A lot of the issues I ran into were caused by lack of modules and cryptsetup not being verbose enough about what it needed.
If you need help compiling the modules, let me know and I will build whatever you need and package up a tar.gz of the source for you and send you a link.
Cheers!
No issue with btrfs, no issue with cryptsetup, only btrfs-over-cryptsetup fails.
edit: actually, even ext4-over-cryptsetup fails.
My modules loaded:
# lsmod Module Size Used by sha256_arm 9692 0 cbc 2094 0 aes_arm 6500 0 hmac 2447 2 drbg 12842 1 ansi_cprng 3702 0 dm_crypt 16585 0 dm_mod 81421 1 dm_crypt ip6table_filter 943 0 ip6_tables 11345 1 ip6table_filter iptable_filter 1004 0 ip_tables 11090 1 iptable_filter x_tables 10502 4 ip6table_filter,ip_tables,iptable_filter,ip6_tableslsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.4 (stretch) Release: 9 Codename: stretchLinux hostname 4.5.2-armada375 #1 SMP Tue Oct 25 11:52:56 CEST 2016 armv7l GNU/LinuxI am on Ubuntu 1604 using the template (distribution kernel ticked).
I used @TheLinuxBug's suggested method of just removing /boot/$4.9.58-kernelfile, and then rebooted to get the netbooted 4.5.2 kernel.
Didn't do anything else other than this; no removing or purging kernels, no installing any modules, nor symlinking anything. Apt working fine and haven’t seen any issues. Iptables also working fine and running fail2ban which is working fine as well.
is a sale with no sale.how are we going to buy the servers on sale if there's no stock?
yeah, they are advertising the new servers for a week now on their page and for 2-3 weeks on twitter and still nothing but some price drops on game/storage