This is not a problem. This is just an informational log entry in /var/log/messages. Use the following commands to see the current status of your raid:
# cat /proc/mdstat
via JBD: Barrier-based Sync Failed On md0-8 – Disabling Barriers Error and Solution.
RPC is extremely painful and there isn’t to much in the way of beginners resources.
via SunRPC beginner tips « ☠ I could not think of a blog title ☠.
There are five broad categories of “bad things” that running software could do, for the purposes of our discussion. In no particular order, software can attempt to damage the machine, compromise the user’s privacy, damage the user’s information, do “bad things” to people other than the machine’s user, and lastly, impersonate the user.
via OLPC Bitfrost – OLPC.
The company is hanging on to the mobile operating system, according to multiple sources, but will submit it to the open source community. HP plans to make the source code available to software developers under an open source arrangement, which will give other hardware manufacturers the ability to work with it.
A better way to find out the correct host controller:
# udevadm info -a -p /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0
where sg0 is the device node of which you’d like to know the corresponding SCSI controller – down that tree you will find hostX mentioned as part of the device path.
And thanks for the rescanning tip, it saved my day.
via Re-scan the SCSI bus in Linux after hot-swapping a drive | Racker Hacker.
Linux LAN card: Find out full duplex / half speed or mode.
ethtool command
Uss ethtool to display or change ethernet card settings. To display duplex speed, enter:
# ethtool eth1
Having problems with an NIC that keeps reporting fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff as its MAC address.
By December 16 of this year, IBM says it plans to support Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition running in a zBX chassis on its HX5 blades.
via Windows on Mainframes Due December 16 — Enterprise Systems.
partprobe command is part of GNU parted software. parted is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program. It allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, ext3, linux-swap, FAT, FAT32, and reiserfs partitions. It can create, resize and move Macintosh HFS partitions, as well as detect jfs, ntfs, ufs, and xfs partitions. It is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
via Re-read The Partition Table Without Rebooting Linux System.
# partprobe /dev/sdX