Adventures in live booting Linux distributions
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We’re all familiar with live booting Linux distributions.
Filesystem
2014
2011
Dual-primary DRBD with OCFS2
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As promised in one of my previous posts about dual-primary DRBD and OCFS2, I’ve compiled a step-by-step guide for Fedora.
2010
Keep web servers in sync with DRBD and OCFS2
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The 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 Slicehost
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NOTE: This post is out of date and is relevant only for GlusterFS 2.
2008
ext3_dx_add_entry: Directory index full!
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I 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?
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Just in case some of you out there enjoy nomenclature and theory behind Linux filesystems, here’s some things to keep in mind.
2007
EXT3-fs error (device hda3) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
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If 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: