Adventures in live booting Linux distributions29 July 2014·1014 words·5 minsWe’re all familiar with live booting Linux distributions.
Dual-primary DRBD with OCFS214 February 2011·979 words·5 minsAs promised in one of my previous posts about dual-primary DRBD and OCFS2, I’ve compiled a step-by-step guide for Fedora.
Keep web servers in sync with DRBD and OCFS23 December 2010·535 words·3 minsThe guide to redundant cloud hosting that I wrote recently will need some adjustments as I’ve fallen hard for the performance and reliability of DRBD and OCFS2.
GlusterFS on the cheap with Rackspace’s Cloud Servers or Slicehost28 May 2010·742 words·4 minsNOTE: This post is out of date and is relevant only for GlusterFS 2.
ext3_dx_add_entry: Directory index full!13 October 2008·207 words·1 minI found a server last week that was having severe issues with disk I/O to the point where most operations were taking many minutes to complete.
What is the difference between file data and metadata?12 March 2008·134 words·1 minJust in case some of you out there enjoy nomenclature and theory behind Linux filesystems, here’s some things to keep in mind.
EXT3-fs error (device hda3) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted20 November 2007·238 words·2 minsIf your system abruptly loses power, or if a RAID card is beginning to fail, you might see an ominous message like this within your logs: