I've turned off the VA-Sterling room for now as I've got my node defaulting to the Virginia room with a few other nodes in the state. 

The Sterling, VA, USA repeater and WIRES-X node is now up and operational. 

It is a full duplex WIRES-X node, C4FM Repeater, and FM Repeater in FM19ha run by KG4TIH.

Ceph has two forms of scrubbing that it runs periodically: Scrub and Deep Scrub

A Scrub is basically as fsck for replicated objects. It ensures that each object's replicas are all the latest version and exist. 

A Deep Scrub is a full checksum validation of all data. 

My Ceph cluster at home isn't designed for performance. It's not designed to maximum availability. It's designed for a low cost per TiB while still maintaining usability and decent disk-level redundancy. Here is some recent tuning to help with performance and corruption prevention....

Sterling, Va now has a Wires-X node (100% digital with full control) on 439.800MHz. 

Note: If/when coordinated frequencies come in and the associated repeater is up, the frequencies will change. 

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Hardware

Previously I posted about the used 60-bay DAS units I recently acquired and racked. Since then I've figured out the basics of using them and have them up and working. 

I was getting this from podman on a CentOS 8 box: 

"error from slirp4netns while setting up port redirection: map[desc:bad request: add_hostfwd: slirp_add_hostfwd failed]"

It was fixed by killing off all podman and /usr/bin/conmon processes as the user that I was running the commands as. Note: Don't do that as root using killall unless you limit to only your user. 

The underlying error may have been running out of FD.

While setting up my Ceph cluster on a set of Dell R710s, one with 60 disks attached to it, I found that I needed to raise fs.aio-max-nr to around 1,000,000. SELinux also needed to be disabled. Once that was done the normal cephadm osd install worked great, even with 60 disks. 

$ cat /etc/sysctl.d/99-osd.conf

# For OSDs
fs.aio-max-nr=1000000

[ceph: root@xxxxxx0 /]# ceph orch host add xxxxxxxxxxx1
Error EINVAL: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ceph/mgr/mgr_module.py", line 1153, in _handle_command
    return self.handle_command(inbuf, cmd)
  File "/usr/share/ceph/mgr/orchestrator/_interface.py", line 110, in handle_command
    return dispatch[cmd['prefix']].call(self, cmd, inbuf)
  File "/usr/share/ceph/mgr/mgr_module.py", line 308, in call
    return self.func(mgr, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/ceph/mgr/orchestrator/_interface.py", line 72, in <lambda>
    wrapper_copy = lambda *l_args,