2012-07-26 | 1 Comment
Additonal blockdevices or GPFS “disks” can be added to an existing filesystem. Each new block device first needs to as an NSD and then those NSDs can be added to a filessytem. The state of the filesystem in terms of … Continue reading
2012-07-26 | 2 Comments
The sas_snmp-3.17-1118.i386 package as provided by LSI in the Megaraid storage manager package is buggy and fails to uninstall. This even blocks upgrades to newer versions of this package. Unfortunately, I have this package installed on a lot of systems … Continue reading
2012-07-26 | 0 comments
My sectional couch doesn’t have much clearance under it, like most couches. This is annoying because 1) scorpions like to hide under my couch, 2) (as I discovered measuring for this project) centipedes like to hide under my couch, 3) … Continue reading
2012-07-24 | 0 comments
I need to ship a clone of a VM image “transhemispherically” over a high latency link that tends to have many connection failures with scp/ssh+rsync. I decided to investigate shrinking the raw images that are in use for performance reason. … Continue reading
2012-07-17 | 0 comments
The first “enterprise” model 4TB Ultrastar 7k4000 (HUS724040ALE640) disks are starting to ship from Hitachi. One hundred of them are currently sitting in my office with a manufacturing date of June 2012. 🙂 They are 7200 RPM with a SATA … Continue reading