DotBlag.Com - Technical Trials And Errors

Well we’ve now had a few months of full production ZFS usage. We’ve had our first drive failure which exposed the oddities of drive failures under ZFS. It does work REALLY hard to cover them up, so much so that it never really quite gave up on the dead drive until I ran [...]

Sorry but I’m a big fan of Adam Savage, Mythbusters, and Jamie Hyneman, and of course the whole M5 Crew, and Mythbusters Crew. so I just have to embed this here. (And yes of course Kari Byron, who wouldn’t be!)

Well, the box running dotblag.com, while plenty serviceable, is showing it’s age.  I’ve ordered a pretty large machine (just short of $3000 in total parts) and the bits are on their way, woohoo!  I’ll be setting it up and burning it in over the next month or two.  Once it’s ready dotblag will be moving [...]

While it’s not clear exactly who-is-causing what, what is clear is the areca driver tries to de-reference a NULL pointer, this is either because the adapter screws up, or the driver screws up somewhere. The result is a Solaris kernel fault, pointing at the arcmsr driver, and apparently an adapter lockup.  It’s not 100% clear [...]

Ordered two racks, received two racks.  One is a rhombus though.  The bottom part was caved in.  *sigh*  sending that one back.
In other news it’s been busy, things are starting to happen for our office move.  If the damaged rack is still here tomorrow (looks like it will be) I’ll update this entry with a [...]

I find myself realizing I’ll have to go probably to a fabric store to get some velcro tape.  Why?  To attach the RAID battery backup module in a 1U chassis.  Why can’t they just include some of this with them?

I’ve been pretty swamped lately so I haven’t had any time to fire off an update.  Trust me though, it’s not that there haven’t been update-worthy-goings-on.
I am therefore, .Fail.

Wow.  So I got a second response almost immediately.  With an explanation.  I’m glad that clearly there’s been a change over there.
 
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So, back in 05, I ordered a copy of The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from Amazon.  The book arrived.  Sometime later I was reading it and discovered that, lo and behold, it was missing pages 529-560.  After some consternation and thought I realized indeed the pages were gone.  I wrote Del Rey books, [...]

Seriously.  You’d think after all these years there’d be better tools than BGP and better tools for working with BGP.  But no.
 
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