2014-11-15 | 0 comments
I was very excited to create my first > petabyte (pebibyte actually) single filesystem this afternoon! And sure enough, df -h reported the size in PiB. I remember filing a bug on df not supporting terabytes (tebibytes) over a decade … Continue reading
2014-11-02 | 0 comments
I currently have a puppet 3.7.2 installation that’s still using storeconfigs (yes, I know it’s a deprecated feature). Exported resources contained in the storeconfigs database have the anonying property of never expiring. Under normal operation they will persist up until … Continue reading
2014-10-01 | 0 comments
The LSI MegaCLI management utility has such an atrocious set of camel case flags that it drives even a cli junky like myself into using the MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) GUI for most routine tasks. However, there are a number … Continue reading
2014-08-01 | 0 comments
TheForeman foreman-rake db:migrate task fails when upgrading between 1.3.x -> 1.4.x and from any version < =1.3 to at least 1.5.2. The fix is to edit the rake task /usr/share/foreman/db/migrate/20130924145800_remove_unused_role_fields.rb. Bug #4518 is open for this issue.
2014-05-14 | 0 comments
It appears that at least with the EL6.x 2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.x86_64 kernel and the bridge-utils-1.2-10.el6.x86_64 package, there are restrictions on the possible MTU values that made be set for a bridge interface. Specifically, you may not set the MTU of the bridge … Continue reading