2013-06-03 | 1 Comment
A few months ago I created a simple template of a Puppet forge module to make clones of when starting a new module due to puppet module generate … leaving much to be manually edited/created. This is very handy when … Continue reading
2013-05-30 | 0 comments
I just had a rather rude surprise upgrading from pacemaker 1.1.7 -> 1.1.8. The crm configuration shell has been removed from the distribution. One does not expect these sorts of changes to happen in a 1.1.z release. v1.1.7 # rpm … Continue reading
2013-05-28 | 0 comments
One of the new features in GPFS 3.5 is that filesets can now have independent an “inode space”, ie it’s own inode table like a stand alone filesystem, and that one fileset can now inherent another fileset’s inode space. This … Continue reading
2013-05-24 | 5 Comments
Occasionally, RPMs will set the xattr immutable flag on important libraries as a safety mechanism to try to prevent core OS breakage. Unfortunately, this will cause package upgrade failures with vague error messages. Eg.: [root@archive ~]# yum update -y nss … Continue reading
2013-05-20 | 0 comments
First we need to identify the block devices that will be part of the new filesystem. In this example, we’re creating a new filesystem from disks directly attached to only one GPFS server that already has existing filesystems with disks … Continue reading