XFS is very reliable, but not 100% reliable. Sometime you may have to run xfs_repair
If you have an XFS filesystem of more than a couple of hundred gigs you will need more than 4G of RAM to run xfs_repair. The cut-off point is not well defined so you won't know how big was too big until its too late.
The XFS people will tell you to take your disks and put them into a machine with enough RAM and do the fsck there. Believe me, I have seen XFS developers actually hand this out as instructions on how to repair an XFS filesystem. I thought it was a joke.
This is an unworkable solution for oh so many reasons, but heres the killer.
Suppose that you have a RAID array, running on hardware RAID which is on the motherboard and your XFS filesystem is on this array. The hardware is not 64 bit nor PAE and you don't have enough RAM to repair the filesystem.
So you take your disks and install them into a 64 bit machine with plenty of RAM and oh wait it was hardware RAID and the controller on this board is different, oops. Time to find out if your backups work.
I love XFS but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing:)
Having ext3 mounted 'data=journal' for your/var/log filesystem can let you see actual log entries from the time leading up to the panic, as opposed to log files with a block of crap in them.
And if anyone doubts the performance of 'data=journal' run iozone to do some comparisons; if you are making so many writes so quickly to large enough files for it to make a noticable performance difference then you already have big problems with your logging.
Its particularly interesting how the Israelis are performing a very cunning and subtle form of genocide; there is a semi-official Israeli line is that there has never been any such thing as a 'Palestinian'. That the people who claim to be Palestinians are really just Arabs. That as Arabs they should be happy to live anywhere in the Arab world (ie Israel isn't part of the Arab world). Thereby attempting to write the Palestinian people out of history, as if they never existed.
The argument seems to involve some ancient history (doesn't *everything* in the middle east?) where (supposedly) the Romans artificially created a connection between the Philestines and the non-hebrew Semites living in 'Israel', thereby inventing 'Palestinians'.
The Philestines were the survivors of the ancient Phoenecian civilisation and as such might have had some political leverage as in 'the Palestinians were here before the Hebrews so they have more rights'.
In modern terms, this would be similar to the argument that aboriginal people have prior claim (eg NZ Maori or Native Americans).
Regardless of whether any of it has any basis in fact, the Israelis are most certainly visiting a holocaust on the people who are, for all intents and purposes, the Palestinians.
Its almost as if they are *trying* to prove the Nazis right... which is a pity because most of the non-Israeli Jews I've known have been very decent people.
What's next, Peace Prize for the nuclear bomb? They certainly bring peace...
There was this guy named Bertrand Russell.
At the end of World War 2 when the 'allies' had the nuke and the Soviets didn't, he advocated a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union.
As soon as the Soviets developed their own nukes, he became an anti-nuclear peace activist.
For him, it was all down to game theory.
So yeah in a sense nukes may brought peace -- if the Soviets hadn't developed them, Eastern Europe and Russia would quite possibly have been nuked into submission. I think that would have been less 'peaceful' than the cold war.
At work we have this constant struggle between the developers who want to use recent versions of various things they want to use and me who doesn't particularly want to get into the backporting game.
I'd give it all up and throw debian out for a distribution that was neither so anal (ie this stupid Firefox business) nor so backward (stable means we don't like fixing bugs unless they are security issues).
If there were a distribution that was as good as Debian for its maintainability, rock-solid stability and ease of updates and upgrades I'd easily convince my boss to change.
So far no other distro comes to mind. I guess that stability and reliability comes with a price; the Debian religion.
Has anyone actually tried to take an aluminum foil wrapped anything through airport security?
Sure, you should see the hassle that Metal bands like Spinal Tap have to go through trying to get aluminum foil covered cucumbers through airport security!
Its really humiliating to have to pull it out of your pants, makes the crotch look all saggy.
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why not move to xfs?
:)
Heres one single good reason.
XFS is very reliable, but not 100% reliable. Sometime you may have to run xfs_repair
If you have an XFS filesystem of more than a couple of hundred gigs you will need more than 4G of RAM to run xfs_repair. The cut-off point is not well defined so you won't know how big was too big until its too late.
The XFS people will tell you to take your disks and put them into a machine with enough RAM and do the fsck there. Believe me, I have seen XFS developers actually hand this out as instructions on how to repair an XFS filesystem. I thought it was a joke.
This is an unworkable solution for oh so many reasons, but heres the killer.
Suppose that you have a RAID array, running on hardware RAID which is on the motherboard and your XFS filesystem is on this array. The hardware is not 64 bit nor PAE and you don't have enough RAM to repair the filesystem.
So you take your disks and install them into a 64 bit machine with plenty of RAM and oh wait it was hardware RAID and the controller on this board is different, oops. Time to find out if your backups work.
I love XFS but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing
Arabs being of semitic heritage themselves, I fail to see how such a thing is plausible.
Hey, I've even heard Jews insult one another by calling each other 'anti-semite'. And not as a joke either.
The use of the term really has become that crazy.
No arab country has millions of Jews planning on burning it from existance.
The Palestine did.
And the Jews got away with it (on the excuse that "it wasn't a *real* country anyway and remember the holocaust!").
A UPS doesn't protect you from kernel panics.
/var/log filesystem can let you see actual log entries from the time leading up to the panic, as opposed to log files with a block of crap in them.
Having ext3 mounted 'data=journal' for your
And if anyone doubts the performance of 'data=journal' run iozone to do some comparisons; if you are making so many writes so quickly to large enough files for it to make a noticable performance difference then you already have big problems with your logging.
IIRC (correct me if I'm wrong please) its even longer around than xfs
In Linux, yes.
In general, no.
XFS came from SGI who had been using it on their systems for a very long time. Don't know the exact dates but I would guess it predates Linux.
XFS is good and reliable.
One thing though; when it does have problems, you better hope that the filesystem is small enough for the available memory to fsck.
When XFS gets over a few hundred gigs you need more than 4G of RAM to fsck it. No joke.
Won't someone *please* think of the adults???
So you are saying... that all pornographers are inherintly contriving assholes?
:) If you can find any...
Well... virtually *all* pornography *is* contrived. Counterexamples appreciated
So yeah, pornographers are, in general, contrivers.
And almost all porn frequently involves ass holes in one capacity or another, whether passive or active.
Well, I guess it depends on whose security Microsoft is talking about.
I thought it was obvious.
Whenever Microsoft talk about 'security' they don't mean 'computer security for users' they mean 'financial security for Microsoft Corporation'.
we have met the enemy and he is us.
Shouldn't that be *the* US?
oops, wrong thread...
So in layman's english ICAAN is simply saying ICAAN'T
I can I can't? Next they'll be wanting to paint Tubbs naked.
This is a local shop, for local people. We'll have no trouble here!
From a related wikipedia article:
Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group
The term 'semite' has become conflated with the term 'jew'.
Jews are part of the Semitic race.
Arabs are also part of the Semitic race.
In that light, anti-semitism may be more understandable; the in-fighting of the semitic people is messing up the world for EVERYONE else.
Palestinians as a whole want to wipe Israel off the map and make no secret of it.
And Israel (and its allies) has *succeeded* in wiping the Palestine off the map.
Cuts both ways.
This coming from the guys whose history includes the "fact" that the Holocaust did not happen.
Sure, and the Israelis (and their allies) deny the "fact" that there is currently a holocaust in progress -- the Palestinian holocaust.
Cuts both ways.
All they would have had to offer were some of Marina Sirtis's & Denise Crosby's "gently used" undergarments.
The ones with the tailored camel-toes?
In a democracy, nothing can be planned, no plan can be carried out, which takes longer than the electoral cycle.
Democracy *imposes* a short-term view on civilisation.
Corporations can afford to take a longer term view; they don't come and go every 4-8 years.
Its particularly interesting how the Israelis are performing a very cunning and subtle form of genocide; there is a semi-official Israeli line is that there has never been any such thing as a 'Palestinian'. That the people who claim to be Palestinians are really just Arabs. That as Arabs they should be happy to live anywhere in the Arab world (ie Israel isn't part of the Arab world). Thereby attempting to write the Palestinian people out of history, as if they never existed.
The argument seems to involve some ancient history (doesn't *everything* in the middle east?) where (supposedly) the Romans artificially created a connection between the Philestines and the non-hebrew Semites living in 'Israel', thereby inventing 'Palestinians'.
The Philestines were the survivors of the ancient Phoenecian civilisation and as such might have had some political leverage as in 'the Palestinians were here before the Hebrews so they have more rights'.
In modern terms, this would be similar to the argument that aboriginal people have prior claim (eg NZ Maori or Native Americans).
Regardless of whether any of it has any basis in fact, the Israelis are most certainly visiting a holocaust on the people who are, for all intents and purposes, the Palestinians.
Its almost as if they are *trying* to prove the Nazis right... which is a pity because most of the non-Israeli Jews I've known have been very decent people.
7-9 million Wiis?
Thats just pissing in the ocean...
What's next, Peace Prize for the nuclear bomb? They certainly bring peace...
There was this guy named Bertrand Russell.
At the end of World War 2 when the 'allies' had the nuke and the Soviets didn't, he advocated a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union.
As soon as the Soviets developed their own nukes, he became an anti-nuclear peace activist.
For him, it was all down to game theory.
So yeah in a sense nukes may brought peace -- if the Soviets hadn't developed them, Eastern Europe and Russia would quite possibly have been nuked into submission. I think that would have been less 'peaceful' than the cold war.
'Nsync cameos as red shirts?
Britney Spears cameos as an Orion slave girl. While pregnant. Again.
They're as silent as can be
Maybe they dump their energy-wasted-as-noise in ultra- or infra-sound which you can't hear?
Cheyenne Mountain?
If it was going to go in Cheyenne Mountain, why not just use the damn Stargate???
So pick another distro.
Seriously, Debian is the THE zealot distro.
At work we have this constant struggle between the developers who want to use recent versions of various things they want to use and me who doesn't particularly want to get into the backporting game.
I'd give it all up and throw debian out for a distribution that was neither so anal (ie this stupid Firefox business) nor so backward (stable means we don't like fixing bugs unless they are security issues).
If there were a distribution that was as good as Debian for its maintainability, rock-solid stability and ease of updates and upgrades I'd easily convince my boss to change.
So far no other distro comes to mind. I guess that stability and reliability comes with a price; the Debian religion.
I'm sure that most of you would agree, there's nothing worse than being forced to watch two nerds argue.
Until they get into a slapping fight. Then you'll wish you had some popcorn.
Has anyone actually tried to take an aluminum foil wrapped anything through airport security?
Sure, you should see the hassle that Metal bands like Spinal Tap have to go through trying to get aluminum foil covered cucumbers through airport security!
Its really humiliating to have to pull it out of your pants, makes the crotch look all saggy.
these airport security people are much the same everywhere in the world
They certainly are not.
For example, the airport security people in Singapore are totally different from their counterparts in the UK.
In Singapore, they exude an air of being happy in their jobs. They are friendly, courteous, efficient and well organised.
Those in the UK are the opposite in every way that matters.