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Collaborative hydration session tonight
Our pals over at Github and Heroku are having a drinkup this evening at King St. Wharf. It’s not strictly our gig, but a few of us will be along to shoot the breeze on sysadminly topics and have a yarn. More details on Github’s page, come along if you like hanging around hardcore technical [...]
100% FAT-free
I wrote some documentation for our sysadmins last week detailing how one should deal with a critical diskspace notification at some ungodly hour of the morning. On the specifics of checking filesystems with the df tool: “Astute readers will notice that we don’t query btrfs filesystems here; this is because btrfs uses extents, and inodes [...]
Channelling your rage
Getting notifications when servers break is always annoying. We use Nagios at Anchor, a very popular solution. “Friggen nagios!” is a pretty common cry. If you get a lot of notifications in quick succession, your Rage meter starts to build up. When it hits 100% you unleash a special attack and reboot the server. That’s [...]
Draft RFC for new 7xx HTTP status codes
It’s come to our attention that a proposal for additional status codes has been released. RFC for the 7XX Range of HTTP Status codes – Developer Errors We’re most in favour of the 73x series, I reckon one of the guys here could hack up a filter in perl to convert those pesky 500-errors from [...]
LCA day 4 – On freedom
It goes without saying that Linuxconf is all about free software, as in both beer and/or speech. A number of today’s talks focused on freedom, in the context of access to data and code, and the freedom to use software (and hardware) the way you see fit. We actually had two great keynote talks on [...]
LCA day 3 – High Availability
Thursday was more of a “practical” day, with plenty of hands-on hacking. This is nothing new, but nowadays you’re more likely to talk about running a bittorrent client on your bluetooth headset than linux on your toaster. There’s some genuinely awesome, really cool hacks out there (Android and Arduino is where a lot of it’s [...]
LCA day 2
Bit of a quiet day today, the highlight was probably the presentations on btrfs and xfs. Btrfs has been developing nicely, and Avi Miller got up to spruik some of the newer features of the filesystem. A bit like ZFS (which isn’t compatible with Linux licensing terms), it pulls in a lot of smarts that [...]
LCA update, Day 1
Anchor’s talk went pretty well by all reports, huzzah! Actually, it wouldn’t be fair to say it was that easy, so I’ll let the cat out of the bag on this one: Panel 1 T-Rex: Our talk to linux.conf.au got accepted! Panel 2 {Close-up of T-Rex’s face, he is visibly excited} T-Rex: It will be [...]
Exciting news from LCA miniconfs
Florian Haas gave a talk yesterday at the HA miniconf to present Flashcache, a project that was spawned from Facebook and their desire to squeeze more performance out of their databases. The basic concept is to use any SSD device as a cache in front of slower rotational media. This is similar to commercial products [...]
It came from beneath the raised floor
Yes, it’s another post about datacentre horrors. I know what you’re thinking: “Yeah yeah, I’ve seen the one about the cabling“. Yeah well I used to be a datacentre technician like you, then I took a PCI-slot shiv in the knee. (Edit: Hrm, it looks like the owner nuked the gallery but the files still [...]
