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nfs-kernel-server vs nfs-user-server

Posted: Sunday, January 8th, 2006 @ 4:23 am in Uncategorized, Linux | No Comments »

I recently upgraded my machine, replaced 4×60gb drives with 4×320GB drives, the 60gb drives were RAID’ed together using the onboard HPT370 chipset, while it was a rather nice arrangement with the 60gb drives, they were slow, old, small and two of them were predicting SMART failure.
setting up the new drives was non-trivial. The HPT370 bios […]

because, when the disk is full, what you really want to do is halt the boot process

Posted: Thursday, December 29th, 2005 @ 7:03 pm in Uncategorized, Linux, MySQL | 1 Comment »

Dec 29 09:53:09 some-server mysqld[900]: /usr/sbin/mysqld: Disk is full writing ‘/var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.000219′ (Errcode: 28). Waiting for someone to free space… Retry in 60 secs

because, you know, it’s OK to block the boot process (/etc/init.d/mysql hangs) becuase MySQL can’t write to disk, in fact, if your going to do this, make absolutely sure that you startup before […]