2012-04-02 | 0 comments
Intel’s family of s5XX0 motherboards includes Embedded Server RAID Technology II. More or less this “technology” loads a BIOS option ROM that displays a status screen similar to typical hardware RAID controller. Unlike a hardware RAID controller, it doesn’t actual … Continue reading
2012-03-30 | 2 Comments
IBM’s GPFS filesystem expects that all members of the GPFS cluster, be they clients or servers, have a complete and consistent state of the cluster. This causes some difficulty in re-adding a node to the cluster after it’s lost it’s … Continue reading
2011-08-19 | 0 comments
I’ve posted a simple skeleton template that I use for setting up local yum repos for RHEL/Centos. There should be sufficient directions in the README (copied below). https://github.com/jhoblitt/yum-repo-skel git://github.com/jhoblitt/yum-repo-skel.git Description =========== This is a very simple template of a yum … Continue reading
2011-08-07 | 1 Comment
Gentoo has two good documents on dealing with UTF8 and localization that should be reviewed. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml I decided to set my system wide default away from ANSI to UTF8 as gnome-terminal seems to inherit LANG from XDM and there … Continue reading
2011-08-04 | 0 comments
I recently created a Win XP 32bit VM to test the win32 Bacula file daemon binary. I used my libvirt on top of Centos5.6 environment for this testing. [root@apollo3 ~]# uname -rm2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 x86_64[root@apollo3 ~]# yum info virt-managerLoaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, … Continue reading