Posted on October 2, 2008 at 11:05 pm
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 [...]
Posted on July 25, 2008 at 5:26 pm
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 [...]
Posted on July 21, 2008 at 11:04 pm
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 [...]
Posted on July 2, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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?
Posted on June 16, 2008 at 10:00 pm
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.
Posted on May 9, 2008 at 10:35 pm
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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Posted on May 9, 2008 at 10:00 pm
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, [...]
Posted on April 30, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Seriously. You’d think after all these years there’d be better tools than BGP and better tools for working with BGP. But no.
*sigh*
deactivate neighbor 216.x.y.z
commit
Posted on April 30, 2008 at 8:01 pm
The Cast:
Linux, played by a happy little penguin.
OpenAFS, played by a herd of longhorn cattle
chroot, played by a yak
ln, played by another yak
The Scene:
OpenAFS running on any server platform, probably Linux. Several AFS Volumes exist across multiple servers. With many clients.
Act The First.
The Penguin acts friendly but is very deceiving. It pretends to be friendly [...]
Posted on April 1, 2008 at 12:26 am
[ part two of I Cee emM Pee you ]
If a woman ever tells a man size doesn’t matter, she’s certainly not being truthful. Similarly anyone talking about packet sizes is also spinning a yarn.
Tunnels can and will reduce your MTU. A lot of consumer NAT devices don’t handle/pass along the ICMP Unreachable codes packet-too-big [...]
The resident lunatech.